Amanda port update

[Sahil Tandon]

David Robillard <david.robillard at 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. :)

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Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>