[bugfixes and minor improvements omitted; see NEWS]
Changes in release 2.5.2
* krb5 auth is working
* Works with IPv6 address
* Amanda configuration file changes
o amanda.conf changes
+ debugging is enabled in the config file
see all debug_* config option
+ tapetype 'readblocksize', if maxtapeblocksize is set too
larger for your hardware
* Amanda command changes
o amadmin: new 'holding list' and 'holding delete' subcommand.
Changes in release 2.5.1p3
* Works with tar-1.16 and exit status of 1.
Changes in release 2.5.1p2
* amoverview is working
* dumptype starttime is working
* Amanda command changes
o amtape accept the -o arguments
o amgetconf --list to list all tapetype, dumptype, holdingdisk
or interface
o amgetconf can return a value of a specific tapetype, dumptype,
holdingdisk or interface
Changes in release 2.5.1p1
* Remove contrib/sst.
Changes in release 2.5.1
* Defects found by Coverity scan and Klocwork K7 analysis tools fixed.
* Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format.
* Open SSL encryption support
* Two new authentication methods: bsdtcp, bsdudp.
* Unlimited number of DLEs on a client with bsdtcp, rsh and ssh
authentication methods.
* Recovery process amrecover uses Secure API. amoldrecover command
(same syntax and functionality as amrecover command) is provided for
compatibility with old Amanda releases. amoldrecover command uses old
amidxtaped/amindexd protocol.
* Amanda debug files are separated into client/server/amandad and
are also classified based on Amanda configuration name.
* Amanda command changes
o amfetchdump -o is replaced by -O.
o amcheck -w option does all tests including the tape writable test.
Use amcheck -t -w to do only the tape writable test.
o -o command option to override Amanda configuration. See amanda man
page for details.
o amgetconf command doesn't write the BUGGY message when a entry
is not found in the configuration file.
* Amanda configuration file changes
o amanda.conf changes
+ amrecover_do_fsf in amanda.conf defaults to yes
+ amrecover_check_label in amanda.conf defaults to yes
+ usetimestamps in amanda.conf to support multiple
backup runs in a calendar day.
+ holdingdisk in amanda.conf supports new values:
NEVER, AUTO, REQUIRED.
+ amandad_path, client_username and ssh_keys in
amanda.conf for ssh/rsh authentication.
o New amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf.
Different client configuration file can be used for each Amanda
configuration.
+ gnutar_list-dir and amandates can be specified in
Amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf
o .amandahosts format changes to allow use of secure API for recovery.
o Amanda service entries in xinetd configuration has changed.
Changes in release 2.5.0p1
* Add the 'amtape update' command.
Changes in release 2.5.0
* Communication security/authentication: Kerberos 4/5, OpenSSH
* Data security: Symmetric/Assymetric encrytion algorithms (aesutil
and gpg encryption), Encryption can be done on server or client,
Custom encryption utilities can be used.
* Compression: Ability to add custom compression tools. This is a
really useful feature especially since it can specified for a DLE. You
can use different compression algorithm for images, binaries, ascii files
and so on.
* Dump images spanning multiple media volumes - Dump images are no
longer restricted to a single media volume (tape or vtape). Data restoration
can be done using amrecover and amfetchdump commands.
* Auto tape labelling - This optional feature is good for disk backups.
Change in release 2.4.5
* new displayunit global option to select the unit use to display number
k=kilo, m=mega, g=giga, t=tera.
* new amoverview -skipmissed option.
Change in release 2.4.5b1
* holding disk disk use timestamped directory.
* autoflush flush today's dump.
* new bumppercent global option, this should improve bumping criteria,
the bumpsize is set to a fixed value which can be adequate for small
and large disk.
* bumpsize, bumppercent, bumpdays and bumpmult can be in a dumptype.
* calcsize support include and exclude like gnutar.
* new 'estimate' dumptype option to select estimate type:
CLIENT: estimate by the dumping program.
CALCSIZE: estimate by the calcsize program, a lot faster but less acurate.
SERVER: estimate based on statistic from previous run, take second but
can be wrong on the estimate size.
then automatically generate a PLIST that says "${PKGNAME} has no files".
* If PLIST_SRC and GENERATE_PLIST are not set in a package Makefile,
and no PLIST files exist, then fail during the package build with
PKG_FAIL_REASON.
* Remove "intentionally empty" PLISTs again.
Now, the easy way to say that a package installs no files is to just
add the following to the package Makefile:
PLIST_SRC= # empty
that directly manipulate empty PLISTs.
Modify plist/plist.mk so that if the PLIST files are missing and no
GENERATE_PLIST is defined, then the package fails to build.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
Bug fix release and minor improvements:
new chg-iomega changer script.
amanda will not use a tape if it's label is not in the tapelist file.
amflush.c: Don't start a driver if nothing to flush.
amadmin.c: Call check_dumpuser() as soon as posible.
amadmin.c: Don't core dump if DUMPCYLE is too big.
dumper.c: Parse warning message.
- New, optional Makefile variable HOMEPAGE, specifies a URL for
the home page of the software if it has one.
- The value of HOMEPAGE is used to add a link from the
README.html files.
- pkglint updated to know about it. The "correct" location for
HOMEPAGE in the Makefile is after MAINTAINER, in that same
section.
Invoke addnerd correctly, so that -g is processed by getopt(3)
Change the RUN_DEPENDS on gnuplot and gtar to DEPENDS - the GNU configure
script needs to find these at the configure stage of the Amanda package.
