Thanks, I just didn't want to OSX binaries to go down the path of the Windows binaries.
There is a new Xcode command productbuild, but I've not explored how to use it yet. __Martin >>>>> On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 15:46:26 +0200, Kern Sibbald said: > > Hello Martin, > > Have you been talking to Dimitri? :-) > > Bacula Systems has no secret script for building Mac OS. It is done > using the scripts in <bacula>/platforms/osx with only some trivial name > changes that I personally made (e.g. Bacula -> Bacula Enterprise, ...). > > All Bacula Systems low level scripts (.rpm, .deb, ...) are published in > the community version, with only one exception. The exception is the > scripts to build Solaris packages, which were written by Marco van > Wieringen. They are not released because his build "system" is too > complicated (at least for me) and is 3GB+ in size the last time I backed > it up :-( Some day, when I take a break from writing new features, I > will rewrite it in a very simple way that should be smaller than 100KB. > > I wasn't aware that Apple has changed the package routines. All Bacula > Enterprise binaries are still build using this original script, so I > will request the build sysadmin to look into the current way of doing > things. > > If you have any tips, they would be appreciated. > > Best regards, > Kern > > On 09/08/2014 03:27 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: > > Unfortunately the cake is rotten now :-) PackageMaker is no longer > > supported > > by Apple so the script doesn't work on OSX 10.9. > > > > Please encourage Bacula Systems to contribute a fix to this script back to > > the > > community version and build its binaries from that, rather than using a > > secret > > cake recipe. > > > > __Martin > > > > > >>>>>> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 16:34:00 +0200, Kern Sibbald said: > >> The Mac OS X client for Bacula should be a standard Mac OS X package -- > >> a xxx.dmg file. > >> Anything that is a tar or other form is not very professional. I am not > >> sure what homebrew supplies, but if they have done it right it is a .dmg. > >> > >> The instructions for building it yourself on a Mac are in the Bacula > >> source distribution in: > >> > >> <bacula>/platforms/osx/README > >> > >> Once you have the developer tools installed, it is a "piece of cake". > >> > >> Best regards, > >> Kern > >> > >> On 09/07/2014 04:06 PM, Paul Mather wrote: > >>> On Sep 7, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 09/07/2014 07:33 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: >>>>> I'm interested in perhaps deploying this in my k-8 school, but I have not >>>>> found a good tutorial of how to install it. Or if it even works right on >>>>> Mac. > >>>>> >>>>> Anyone have some insights on this? My idea would be to back about 30 macs >>>>> to an Ubuntu server. > >>>> This would be a good way to setup Bacula. The Director, SD and catalog > >>>> work well on a Ubuntu server -- I recommend Trusty (14.04). For the > >>>> Mac's someone probably has made the binaries and distributes them on the > >>>> Internet. Otherwise if you load all the appropriate build tools on the > >>>> Mac, you can easily build the FD. Later this year, Bacula Systems will > >>>> provide free binaries for MacOSX which should also help. > >>> I've not used Bacula on a Mac, but I do notice that Homebrew > >>> (http://brew.sh) has a formula for bacula-fd, which could be used to > >>> install the client. Right now, it's only for the 5.x version (5.2.13), > >>> though. > >>> > >>> I hope this helps. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Paul. > >>> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> Slashdot TV. > >> Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > >> http://tv.slashdot.org/ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bacula-users mailing list > >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
