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-\chapter{Bacula RPM Packaging FAQ}
-\label{RpmFaqChapter}
-\index[general]{FAQ!Bacula\textsuperscript{\textregistered} - RPM Packaging }
-\index[general]{Bacula\textsuperscript{\textregistered} - RPM Packaging FAQ }
-
-\begin{enumerate}
-\item
- \ilink{How do I build Bacula for platform xxx?}{faq1}
-\item
- \ilink{How do I control which database support gets built?}{faq2}
-
-\item
- \ilink{What other defines are used?}{faq3}
-\item
- \ilink{I'm getting errors about not having permission when I try to build the
- packages. Do I need to be root?}{faq4}
-\item
- \ilink{I'm building my own rpms but on all platforms and compiles I get an
- unresolved dependency for something called
- /usr/afsws/bin/pagsh.}{faq5}
-\item
- \ilink{I'm building my own rpms because you don't publish for my platform.
- Can I get my packages released to sourceforge for other people to use?}{faq6}
-\item
- \ilink{Is there an easier way than sorting out all these command line options?}{faq7}
-\item
- \ilink{I just upgraded from 1.36.x to 1.38.x and now my director daemon won't start. It appears to start but dies silently and I get a "connection refused" error when starting the console. What is wrong?}{faq8}
-\item
- \ilink{There are a lot of rpm packages. Which packages do I need for what?}{faq9}
-\end{enumerate}
-
-\section{Answers}
-\index[general]{Answers }
-
-\begin{enumerate}
-\item
- \label{faq1}
- {\bf How do I build Bacula for platform xxx?}
- The bacula spec file contains defines to build for several platforms: \\
- \\
- Red Hat 7.x (rh7), Red Hat 8.0 (rh8), Red Hat 9 (rh9), \\
- Fedora Core (fc1, fc3, fc4, fc5, fc6, fc7, fc8), \\
- Whitebox Enterprise Linux 3.0 (wb3), \\
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (rhel3, rhel4, rhel5), \\
- Mandrake 10.x (mdk), Mandriva 2006.x (mdv), \\
- CentOS (centos3, centos4, centos5) \\
- Scientific Linux (sl3, sl4, sl5) and \\
- SuSE (su9, su10, su102, su103, su110). \\
- \\
- The package build is controlled by a mandatory define set at the beginning of the file. These defines basically just control the dependency information that gets coded into the finished rpm package as well
- as any special configure options required. The platform define may be edited
- in the spec file directly (by default all defines are set to 0 or "not set").
- For example, to build the Red Hat 7.x package find the line in the spec file
- which reads
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- %define rh7 0
-
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-and edit it to read
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- %define rh7 1
-
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-Alternately you may pass the define on the command line when calling rpmbuild:
-
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- rpmbuild -ba --define "build_rh7 1" bacula.spec
- rpmbuild --rebuild --define build_rh7 1" bacula-x.x.x-x.src.rpm
-
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-\item
- \label{faq2}
- {\bf How do I control which database support gets built?}
- Another mandatory build define controls which database support is compiled,
- one of build\_sqlite, build\_mysql or build\_postgresql. To get the MySQL
- package and support either set the
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- %define mysql 0
- OR
- %define mysql4 0
- OR
- %define mysql5 0
-
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-to
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- %define mysql 1
- OR
- %define mysql4 1
- OR
- %define mysql5 1
-
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-in the spec file directly or pass it to rpmbuild on the command line:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- rpmbuild -ba --define "build_rh7 1" --define "build_mysql 1" bacula.spec
- rpmbuild -ba --define "build_rh7 1" --define "build_mysql4 1" bacula.spec
- rpmbuild -ba --define "build_rh7 1" --define "build_mysql5 1" bacula.spec
-
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-\item
- \label{faq3}
- {\bf What other defines are used?} \\
- Three other building defines of note are the depkgs\_version, docs\_version and
- \_rescuever identifiers. These two defines are set with each release and must
- match the version of those sources that are being used to build the packages.
- You would not ordinarily need to edit these. See also the Build Options section
- below for other build time options that can be passed on the command line.
-\item
- \label{faq4}
- {\bf I'm getting errors about not having permission when I try to build the
- packages. Do I need to be root?} \\
- No, you do not need to be root and, in fact, it is better practice to
- build rpm packages as a non-root user. Bacula packages are designed to
- be built by a regular user but you must make a few changes on your
- system to do this. If you are building on your own system then the
- simplest method is to add write permissions for all to the build
- directory (/usr/src/redhat/, /usr/src/RPM or /usr/src/packages).
- To accomplish this, execute the following command as root:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- chmod -R 777 /usr/src/redhat
- chmod -R 777 /usr/src/RPM
- chmod -R 777 /usr/src/packages
-
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-If you are working on a shared system where you can not use the method
-above then you need to recreate the appropriate above directory tree with all
-of its subdirectories inside your home directory. Then create a file named
-
-{\tt .rpmmacros}
-
-in your home directory (or edit the file if it already exists)
-and add the following line:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- %_topdir /home/myuser/redhat
- %_tmppath /tmp
-
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-Another handy directive for the .rpmmacros file if you wish to suppress the
-creation of debug rpm packages is:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- %debug_package %{nil}
-
-\end{verbatim}
-
-\normalsize
-
-\item
- \label{faq5}
- {\bf I'm building my own rpms but on all platforms and compiles I get an
- unresolved dependency for something called /usr/afsws/bin/pagsh.} \\
- This is a shell from the OpenAFS (Andrew File System). If you are
- seeing this then you chose to include the docs/examples directory in
- your package. One of the example scripts in this directory is a pagsh
- script. Rpmbuild, when scanning for dependencies, looks at the shebang
- line of all packaged scripts in addition to checking shared libraries.
- To avoid this do not package the examples directory. If you are seeing
- this problem you are building a very old bacula package as the examples
- have been removed from the doc packaging.
-
-\item
- \label{faq6}
- {\bf I'm building my own rpms because you don't publish for my platform.
- Can I get my packages released to sourceforge for other people to use?}
- \\
- Yes, contributions from users are accepted and appreciated. Please
- examine the directory platforms/contrib-rpm in the source code for
- further information.
-
-\item
- \label{faq7}
- {\bf Is there an easier way than sorting out all these command line options?}
- \\
- Yes, there is a gui wizard shell script which you can use to rebuild the
- src rpm package. Look in the source archive for
- platforms/contrib-rpm/rpm\_wizard.sh. This script will allow you to
- specify build options using GNOME dialog screens. It requires zenity.
-
-\item
- \label{faq8}
- {\bf I just upgraded from 1.36.x to 1.38.x and now my director daemon
-won't start. It appears to start but dies silently and I get a "connection
-refused" error when starting the console. What is wrong?} \\
- Beginning with 1.38 the rpm packages are configured to run the director
- and storage daemons as a non-root user. The file daemon runs as user
- root and group bacula, the storage daemon as user bacula and group disk,
- and the director as user bacula and group bacula. If you are upgrading
- you will need to change some file permissions for things to work.
- Execute the following commands as root:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- chown bacula.bacula /var/bacula/*
- chown root.bacula /var/bacula/bacula-fd.9102.state
- chown bacula.disk /var/bacula/bacula-sd.9103.state
-
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-Further, if you are using File storage volumes rather than tapes those
-files will also need to have ownership set to user bacula and group bacula.
-
-\item
- \label{faq9}
- {\bf There are a lot of rpm packages. Which packages do I need for
-what?} \\
-For a bacula server you need to select the packsge based upon your
-preferred catalog database: one of bacula-mysql, bacula-postgresql or
-bacula-sqlite. If your system does not provide an mtx package you also
-need bacula-mtx to satisfy that dependancy. For a client machine you need
-only install bacula-client. Optionally, for either server or client
-machines, you may install a graphical console bacula-gconsole and/or
-bacula-wxconsole. The Bacula Administration Tool is installed with the
-bacula-bat package. One last package, bacula-updatedb is required only when
-upgrading a server more than one database revision level.
-
-
-
-\item {\bf Support for RHEL3/4/5, CentOS 3/4/5, Scientific Linux 3/4/5 and x86\_64}
- \\
- The examples below show
- explicit build support for RHEL4 and CentOS 4. Build support
- for x86\_64 has also been added.
-\end{enumerate}
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
-Build with one of these 3 commands:
-
-rpmbuild --rebuild \
- --define "build_rhel4 1" \
- --define "build_sqlite 1" \
- bacula-1.38.3-1.src.rpm
-
-rpmbuild --rebuild \
- --define "build_rhel4 1" \
- --define "build_postgresql 1" \
- bacula-1.38.3-1.src.rpm
-
-rpmbuild --rebuild \
- --define "build_rhel4 1" \
- --define "build_mysql4 1" \
- bacula-1.38.3-1.src.rpm
-
-For CentOS substitute '--define "build_centos4 1"' in place of rhel4.
-For Scientific Linux substitute '--define "build_sl4 1"' in place of rhel4.
-
-For 64 bit support add '--define "build_x86_64 1"'
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-\section{Build Options}
-\index[general]{Build Options}
-The spec file currently supports building on the following platforms:
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
-Red Hat builds
---define "build_rh7 1"
---define "build_rh8 1"
---define "build_rh9 1"
-
-Fedora Core build
---define "build_fc1 1"
---define "build_fc3 1"
---define "build_fc4 1"
---define "build_fc5 1"
---define "build_fc6 1"
---define "build_fc7 1"
---define "build_fc8 1"
---define "build_fc9 1"
-
-Whitebox Enterprise build
---define "build_wb3 1"
-
-Red Hat Enterprise builds
---define "build_rhel3 1"
---define "build_rhel4 1"
---define "build_rhel5 1"
-
-CentOS build
---define "build_centos3 1"
---define "build_centos4 1"
---define "build_centos5 1"
-
-Scientific Linux build
---define "build_sl3 1"
---define "build_sl4 1"
---define "build_sl5 1"
-
-SuSE build
---define "build_su9 1"
---define "build_su10 1"
---define "build_su102 1"
---define "build_su103 1"
---define "build_su110 1"
---define "build_su111 1"
-
-Mandrake 10.x build
---define "build_mdk 1"
-
-Mandriva build
---define "build_mdv 1"
-
-MySQL support:
-for mysql 3.23.x support define this
---define "build_mysql 1"
-if using mysql 4.x define this,
-currently: Mandrake 10.x, Mandriva 2006.0, SuSE 9.x & 10.0, FC4 & RHEL4
---define "build_mysql4 1"
-if using mysql 5.x define this,
-currently: SuSE 10.1 & FC5
---define "build_mysql5 1"
-
-PostgreSQL support:
---define "build_postgresql 1"
-
-Sqlite support:
---define "build_sqlite 1"
-
-Build the client rpm only in place of one of the above database full builds:
---define "build_client_only 1"
-
-X86-64 support:
---define "build_x86_64 1"
-
-Supress build of bgnome-console:
---define "nobuild_gconsole 1"
-
-Build the WXWindows console:
-requires wxGTK >= 2.6
---define "build_wxconsole 1"
-
-Build the Bacula Administration Tool:
-requires QT >= 4.2
---define "build_bat 1"
-
-Build python scripting support:
---define "build_python 1"
-
-Modify the Packager tag for third party packages:
---define "contrib_packager Your Name <youremail@site.org>"
-
-Install most files to /opt/bacula directory:
---define "single_dir_install 1"
-
-Build the rescue files:
---define "build_rescue 1"
-
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-\section{RPM Install Problems}
-\index[general]{RPM Install Problems}
-In general the RPMs, once properly built should install correctly.
-However, when attempting to run the daemons, a number of problems
-can occur:
-\begin{itemize}
-\item Wrong /var/bacula Permissions \\
- By default, the Director and Storage daemon do not run with
- root permission. If the /var/bacula is owned by root, then it
- is possible that the Director and the Storage daemon will not
- be able to access this directory, which is used as the Working
- Directory. To fix this, the easiest thing to do is:
-\begin{verbatim}
- chown bacula:bacula /var/bacula
-\end{verbatim}
- Note: as of 1.38.8 /var/bacula is installed root:bacula with
- permissions 770.
-\item The Storage daemon cannot Access the Tape drive \\
- This can happen in some older RPM releases where the Storage
- daemon ran under userid bacula, group bacula. There are two
- ways of fixing this: the best is to modify the /etc/init.d/bacula-sd
- file so that it starts the Storage daemon with group "disk".
- The second way to fix the problem is to change the permissions
- of your tape drive (usually /dev/nst0) so that Bacula can access it.
- You will probably need to change the permissions of the SCSI control
- device as well, which is usually /dev/sg0. The exact names depend
- on your configuration, please see the Tape Testing chapter for
- more information on devices.
-\end{itemize}
-
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