[Bacula-devel] Re: ANN: beta Debian packages for Bacula

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

Hello,

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 01:19, Jos=E9 Luis Tall=F3n wrote:
> I am proud to announce the availability of my Debian packages for Bacul=
a (=20
> currently packaged Bacula 1.32b, will upgrade to the latest version ver=
y=20
> soon ). They are about ready more than a week later than i wanted to, b=
ut=20
> it has been impossible to release sooner. Sorry for the inconvenience.

No need to apologize. Considering it is the first Debian packaging, I'd
say that you were very fast!  Thank you very much for all the work.

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> There are several rough edges needing some polishing, plus all the=20
> packaging bugs which i expect will be found during this early beta-test=
ing=20
> stage.
> Known shortcomings:
> 	- The post-install of the bacula-director-mysql package is not perfect=
 at=20
> all ( haven't had time to polish the state machine so that it copes wit=
h=20
> all the situations )
> 	- The postinst scripts contain a minimal race condition that i am awar=
e=20
> of; However, i expect it to very seldom be able to cause a problem[prob=
ably=20
> never!] -- will fix soon
> 	- The relationships / interactions between packages are not believed t=
o be=20
> perfect.
> 	- The initscripts might need to have some additional robustness featur=
es=20
> added.
> 	- The manpages are far from complete ( they just give a very brief=20
> synopsis as of now )
> 	- The debconf templates are not completely migrated to po-debconf
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> 	... plus several others i'm sure will appear in the very first stages =
of=20
> testing.
> I hope i haven't forgotten to package too many files ;)

We had similar things to attend to when first making the rpms. It is
normal.

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> The packages are available here:
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> 	deb http://devel.adv-solutions.net/debian unstable main ( binary-i386 =
for=20
> now )
> 	deb-src http://devel.adv-solutions.net/debian unstable main
> 	( original sources as downloaded from www.bacula.org )

If you give me your Source Forge userid, I'll put you on the Bacula
project with permissions to make file releases so that you can
upload the packages to the Source Forge Bacula release. If you don't
have a userid, it would be useful for you to get one.  Also, if you have
never done a Source Forge release, let me know, and I'll send you
instructions on how to do it.  Please let me know so we can work out the
details.

Thanks again for all the work!

Best regards,

Kern

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> Summary of the packages:
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> * Meta-Packages( dependencies only ):
> 	[Since only the RM is allowed to use the "Task:" tags ;) ]
> 	* bacula ( everything )
> 	* bacula-server ( bacula-sd + bacula-dir )
> 	* bacula-client ( bacula-fd + console )
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> * Documentation:
> 	* bacula-doc [ all archs ]
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> * Support packages
> 	* bacula-common [all]
> 	* bacula-director-common
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> * Daemons:
> 	* bacula-sd
> 	* bacula-fd
> 	* bacula-director-mysql ( MySQL version of the catalog )
> 	* bacula-director-sqlite ( SQLite version of the catalog )
> 	[ these are designed so that adding more DB interfaces is relatively e=
asy ]
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> * User interface:
> 	* bacula-console
> 	* bacula-console-gnome ( compiled for Gnome 2.0 )
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>=20
> The post-installation scripts slightly customize the 'standard' config=20
> files as shipped in the source distribution only ( just substitute in t=
he=20
> correct hostname ); Maybe an additional bacula-config script ?
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> The packages are signed with my GPG key, ID 0x0210652C, as found on sev=
eral=20
> keyservers ( keyring.debian.org among them ).
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> I hereby express my gratitude to Kern Sibbald & John Walker for writing=
 the=20
> software and Tilo Levante, Nic Belamy and Patrick Cole for their suppor=
t.=20
> Thank you very much!
> I will be fixing all bugs i discover/am made aware of as soon as=20
> possible... Thanks in advance to all the beta-testers.
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> Provided my sponsors have time, i hope the packages will be in Debian's=
 Sid=20
> as soon as possible [ once the bugs are solved, of course :) ]
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> All comments/suggestions/etc are welcome.
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> Regards,
> 	J.L.