Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 13:33:29 -0400 From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> To: David Robillard <david.robillard@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Amanda port update Message-ID: <20080704173329.GC1466@shepherd> In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60807040828l1f4c3f33qa35d31f51c7fe4cb@mail.gmail.com> References: <226ae0c60807040828l1f4c3f33qa35d31f51c7fe4cb@mail.gmail.com>
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David Robillard <david.robillard@gmail.com> wrote: > > I need to install the current version of Amanda (misc/amanda-client and > > misc/amanda-server) and would like to install from the ports collection. > > However the port maintainer has not updated Amanda in quite some time. Can > > someone give me some advice on how to roll my own ports install from the > > source tarball? Thanks. > > Did you try to contact the port maintainer? You probably want to check > with him/her before you update the port no? > > In any case, it's a good idea to update the port because we're going > to need it here too! It's nice to contact the maintainer to ensure you don't duplicate efforts. But no need to ask permission to create an update patch. :) -- Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
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