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List:       bacula-users
Subject:    Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD: HEADS UP - port changes
From:       Dan Langille <dan () langille ! org>
Date:       2012-12-18 22:43:21
Message-ID: 8AF8FC38-8440-4985-9CA2-CEF1C7C09214 () langille ! org
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On Dec 18, 2012, at 4:31 PM, John Stoffel wrote:

>>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> writes:
> 
> Dan> On 2012-12-16 17:25, Dan Langille wrote:
>>> On Oct 27, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
>>> 
>>>> We are going to be making some major changes to the FreeBSD port of 
>>>> Bacula.
>>>> Before we do this, I'm looking for volunteers to test out the 
>>>> changes.
>>>> 
>>>> This is a short list of the changes we plan to make:
>>>> 
>>>> - bacula-server will require bacula-client.  you cannot install 
>>>> bacula-server without bacula-client
>>>> - bacula-client and bacula-server will no longer install docs
>>>> - all docs are installed only by bacula-docs
>>>> - new port added: bacula-client-static (statically linked; so good 
>>>> for rescue CDs etc)
>>>> 
>>>> Why is bacula-client now required by bacula-server?  A long standing 
>>>> problem between the two
>>>> ports was they each installed the same shared libraries.  We solved 
>>>> this situation by making only bacula-client
>>>> install the shared libraries.  This is why bacula-server requires 
>>>> bacula-client.
> 
> So why don't you just put the libs into bacula-libs and have
> bacula-server and bacula-client depend on that being installed?

That is a good idea and I imagine we'll go there eventually.

I didn't do the background work on this patch.  It came from acm@ who
submitted the patch. At present my main priorities are organizing BSDCan and 
PGCon.  I'll give any such patch serious consideration if someone submits it.

>  Seems
> simpler and easier and lots of other packages do this,

Agreed.

> but I come from
> much more of a Debian back ground…


I won't hold that against you.  ;)

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org


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