On Tuesday 25 January 2005 09:48, Craig White wrote: >On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:37 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: >> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 09:29 -0500, Leonard Isham wrote: >> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:06:30 +0100, Erik P. Olsen <erik@xxxxxx> wrote: >> > > Excuse me for asking a newbie question, but I am a little >> > > uneasy about what to do. >> > > >> > > I am running FC3 which comes with GNU tar version 1.14. This version of tar is known to be broken when used as amanda uses it. 1.13-19 and 1.13-25 both work just fine, as does the new 1.15-1. >> > > I plan >> > > to upgrade it to version 1.15.1 which comes in tar format >> > > only. What is the recommended way of installing it? Should I >> > > remove it first and risk that the installation may require tar >> > > processing? It will install in /usr/local/bin whereas the 1.14 is in /bin, all you need to do is rebuild amanda to point to it. I'm running 1.15-1 with amanda and am not having any problems not of my own doing, like a faulty exclude file. You can rpm -e the rpm of tar-1.14 if you'd like. >> > >> > Take a moment and think about this. >> > >> > 1. You want to upgrade tar >> > 2. The new version of tar comes as a tarball >> > 3. If you delete/remove tar then how are you going to read the >> > tarball? >> >> I have no problem in untaring the tarball. >> >> > 4. Download the new tar's tarball and untar it look at the >> > documentation and determine how you wat to proceed from there. >> >> Sorry, I shouldn't have asked the question. I was just looking for >> a friendly advice. > >---- >you can install it in /usr/local and have amanda use that version > and leave the rpm (and the default installation) alone. > >Craig -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
