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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:26:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        jeh@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        iedowse@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dump dump.8 main.c
Message-ID:  <200203012226.g21MQ1sP055468@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C7FFECC.7F025DFB@FreeBSD.org>

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On  1 Mar, James E. Housley wrote:
> Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>> 
>> On  1 Mar, Ian Dowse wrote:
>> > iedowse     2002/03/01 12:54:24 PST
>> >
>> >   Modified files:
>> >     sbin/dump            dump.8 main.c
>> >   Log:
>> >   Add a new "-S" flag to dump to allow it just print out dump estimate
>> >   size and then exit.
>> 
>> Our (and NetBSD's) amanda port can be modified to use this feature,
>> once it is MFC-ed. Currently it runs dump and watches the output.
>> When it outputs the estimate, it kills the dump process(es)...
>>
>> Then, again, it may not be worth the trouble to check the version of
>> the OS just for that...

> How would you check for this from within ./configure? Most of the
> checks are based upon trying someing and seeing if it fails.

Amanda detects some other switches in configure now. Besides, the
port can "Just Do It" [TM] if it knows for sure (from an OS bump, for
example).

> More importantly, are FreeBSD and NetBSD the only two with this
> functionality? I will look into this after it is MFC'd. Our port
> system will be able to know, after the next os bump.

Cool. Thanks :)

	-mi



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