1 Bacula-1.32f RPM Release Notes
4 <barninger at fairfieldcomputers dot com>
7 This release incorporates the 1.32f-1-weekofmonth and
8 the 1.32f-2-eom-nextvol patches. A Fedora Core build
9 define has been added and additional dependency
10 information has been added to the package Requires.
11 The virtual package names bacula-dir, bacula-sd and
12 bacula-fd have been added as Provides and the rescue
13 package now requires the bacula-fd which can be satisfied
14 either with the client package or either one of the
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18 *This rpm release contains some important changes from 1.32d*
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21 The platform designator (rh7, rh8, rh9) has been
22 REMOVED from the package names as this was creating
23 some problems. Hence, you CAN NOT upgrade existing
24 1.32d installations with these packages (rpm -U).
27 1. Backup your configuration files (/etc/bacula/*.conf)
29 2. Uninstall the old bacula package, ie.
30 rpm -e bacula-mysql-rh9
31 If you are not sure what package name is installed do
33 3. Install the new package with rpm -i
35 In addition, the spec file has been reworked to include a
36 platform configuration section at the beginning of the file.
37 To rebuild the SRPM, first install using rpm -i then edit
38 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/bacula.spec (or whatever directory
39 structure your platform uses) to set platform options and
40 select whether to build MySQL support. You can also pass
41 any of the defines on the command line as before.
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44 *Future Platform Support*
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47 RedHat 9 and perhaps 8 will continue to be supported for the
48 forseeable future. Whitebox Enterprise Linux support is
49 added with this release as I intend to migrate my server
50 (currently RH8) to that platform. Future releases will probably
51 add SuSE packages. I may also continue to provide RH8 packages
52 by setting up a box for that purpose.
54 There is no intent to provide Fedora Core packages as neither
55 one of us wishes to get on that upgrade treadmill, however I
56 expect the SRPM will continue to build on that platform for some
57 time. Anyone who is interested in building Fedora Core packages
58 please get in touch with me.
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61 *Rescue script package notes*
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64 This release officially includes the rescue package.
65 This package installs scripts for disaster recovery and
66 builds rescue floppy disks for bare metal recovery. This
67 package includes tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/, by
68 Tom Oehser, Tom@Toms.NET) to provide a tool to build a
69 boot floppy disk. This package is platform independant as
70 it only includes shell scripts and a static file daemon.
71 The tomsrtbt package requires the libc5 compat libraries,
73 ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/libc5-5.4.38-3.i386.rpm
75 You need to have the bacula-sqlite, bacula-mysql or
76 bacula-client package for your platform installed and
77 configured before installing this package. All of these
78 packages will supply the virtual package bacula-fd which is
79 a requirement for the rescue package.
81 After installing the scripts, rpm will run the getdiskinfo
82 script to create the necessary information for your installation.
84 To create a boot floppy using this information run
85 ./make_rescue_disk --copy-static-bacula --copy-etc-files
86 from the /etc/bacula/rescue directory.
88 To recreate the disk information run
90 from the /etc/bacula/rescue directory.