Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:52:33 -0500 From: "James E. Housley" <jeh@FreeBSD.org> To: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, jeh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Shouldn't misc/amanda be retired and replaced by misc/amanda24-server Message-ID: <3C00F7A1.4114F7C6@FreeBSD.org> References: <20011124215411.G685@johncoop.MSHOME>
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John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > > In the never-ending campaign to minimize version numbers in port names, > etc., isn't it time to retire the present occupant of misc/amanda > (amanda 2.3.0.4) replace it by repo-copying misc/amanda24-server to > misc/amanda, repo-copying misc/amanda24-client to misc/amanda-client, > cleaning up the builds and deleting the residue? Yes they should. I had wanted to leave both for a while to allow since they are not compitable, but It will be done before 4.5. > > It seems pointless to carry a version of amanda that's considered all > but obsolete on the amanda mailing list. > > Also, it would be very, very nice if the amanda port numbers were > appended to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf (commented out as > appropriate). As it stands right now, it's a royal (and error-prone) > pain to set up on FreeBSD. > They were added to /etc/services in 1997. Adding to /etc/inetd.conf might be nice, but there are a lot of other ports without entries in there either. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net jhousley@SimTel.Net http://www.SimTel.Net --------------------------------------------------------------------- Progress (n) : What led from smart users in front of dumb terminals to dumb users in front of smart terminals. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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