Bacula-1.32f RPM Release Notes 10 January 2004 D. Scott Barninger Release 1.32f-2 This release incorporates the 1.32f-1-weekofmonth and the 1.32f-2-eom-nextvol patches. A Fedora Core build define has been added and additional dependency information has been added to the package Requires. The virtual package names bacula-dir, bacula-sd and bacula-fd have been added as Provides and the rescue package now requires the bacula-fd which can be satisfied either with the client package or either one of the main packages. ************************************************************* *This rpm release contains some important changes from 1.32d* ************************************************************* The platform designator (rh7, rh8, rh9) has been REMOVED from the package names as this was creating some problems. Hence, you CAN NOT upgrade existing 1.32d installations with these packages (rpm -U). To upgrade: 1. Backup your configuration files (/etc/bacula/*.conf) "just to be safe." 2. Uninstall the old bacula package, ie. rpm -e bacula-mysql-rh9 If you are not sure what package name is installed do rpm -qa | grep bacula 3. Install the new package with rpm -i In addition, the spec file has been reworked to include a platform configuration section at the beginning of the file. To rebuild the SRPM, first install using rpm -i then edit /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/bacula.spec (or whatever directory structure your platform uses) to set platform options and select whether to build MySQL support. You can also pass any of the defines on the command line as before. ************************* *Future Platform Support* ************************* RedHat 9 and perhaps 8 will continue to be supported for the forseeable future. Whitebox Enterprise Linux support is added with this release as I intend to migrate my server (currently RH8) to that platform. Future releases will probably add SuSE packages. I may also continue to provide RH8 packages by setting up a box for that purpose. There is no intent to provide Fedora Core packages as neither one of us wishes to get on that upgrade treadmill, however I expect the SRPM will continue to build on that platform for some time. Anyone who is interested in building Fedora Core packages please get in touch with me. ***************************** *Rescue script package notes* ***************************** This release officially includes the rescue package. This package installs scripts for disaster recovery and builds rescue floppy disks for bare metal recovery. This package includes tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/, by Tom Oehser, Tom@Toms.NET) to provide a tool to build a boot floppy disk. This package is platform independant as it only includes shell scripts and a static file daemon. The tomsrtbt package requires the libc5 compat libraries, available at ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/libc5-5.4.38-3.i386.rpm You need to have the bacula-sqlite, bacula-mysql or bacula-client package for your platform installed and configured before installing this package. All of these packages will supply the virtual package bacula-fd which is a requirement for the rescue package. After installing the scripts, rpm will run the getdiskinfo script to create the necessary information for your installation. To create a boot floppy using this information run ./make_rescue_disk --copy-static-bacula --copy-etc-files from the /etc/bacula/rescue directory. To recreate the disk information run ./getdiskinfo from the /etc/bacula/rescue directory.