Thanks. The piece that seems to be missing from amanda is the ability
to build specific parts to make split packages. pkgsrc splits amanda into

-common
-client
-server
-plot

So what's needed is to build -common:

Information for amanda-common-2.5.2p1nb1:

Files:
/usr/pkg/lib/libamanda.la
/usr/pkg/lib/libamanda-2.5.2p1.so
/usr/pkg/lib/libamanda.a
/usr/pkg/lib/libamanda.so
/usr/pkg/lib/libamandad.la
/usr/pkg/lib/libamandad-2.5.2p1.so
/usr/pkg/lib/libamandad.a
/usr/pkg/lib/libamandad.so
/usr/pkg/man/man5/amanda-client.conf.5
/usr/pkg/man/man5/amanda.conf.5
/usr/pkg/man/man8/amanda.8
/usr/pkg/share/doc/amanda/COPYRIGHT
/usr/pkg/share/doc/amanda/ReleaseNotes

and then have builds of -client not build that library, using the
installed version, and then not install them.

Information for amanda-client-2.5.2p1:

Files:
/usr/pkg/dumper/amgtar
/usr/pkg/dumper/generic-dumper
/usr/pkg/lib/libamclient.la
/usr/pkg/lib/libamclient-2.5.2p1.so
/usr/pkg/lib/libamclient.a
/usr/pkg/lib/libamclient.so
/usr/pkg/libexec/amandad
/usr/pkg/libexec/calcsize
/usr/pkg/libexec/killpgrp
/usr/pkg/libexec/noop
/usr/pkg/libexec/patch-system
/usr/pkg/libexec/rundump
/usr/pkg/libexec/runtar
/usr/pkg/libexec/selfcheck
/usr/pkg/libexec/sendbackup
/usr/pkg/libexec/sendsize
/usr/pkg/libexec/versionsuffix
/usr/pkg/man/man8/amrecover.8
/usr/pkg/sbin/amoldrecover
/usr/pkg/sbin/amrecover

The pkgsrc packages have a lot of patches to munge the makefiles to work
around this.

GNU Radio has recently added a modular build to make this work; one can
configured any of about 15 modules on and off, with prereqs coming from
an already installed place.

These are currently handled by the same configure options as always
(--without-foo) in config/amanda/components.m4. The least confusing
way we've found to package Amanda is to build a -server version with
everything, and a -client version --without-server. This seems to
cover just about every possible use of the package. Unfortunately,
it's incompatible with one-package-per-file systems like Gentoo
portage and *BSD ports.

I would be interested to see a patch to implement the behavior you
specifi. It will require a lot of rework for all of the various
packaging scripts, but I think that's a fair price to pay.

Dustin

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Greg Troxel < gdt%40ir.bbn.com">gdtir.bbn.com> wrote:
&gt; Thanks. The piece that seems to be missing from amanda is the ability
> to build specific parts to make split packages. pkgsrc splits amanda into
>;
> -common
> -client
> -server
> -plot
&gt;
> So what's needed is to build -common:

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