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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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