[Box Backup] Solaris

Peter Porter / SAIC boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Mon Nov 22 20:58:38 GMT 2004


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Send me the changes you've made, I would enjoy taking a look at it.  I 
should have some spare time over the next week or two to chase the 
errors from the tests around.  Email me off list if you need somewhere 
to post it, I have space.

Thanks for all the hard work Martin (and, of course, Ben); I hope that 
it did turn out to be fun :)  It will sure make my life considerably easier.

...and I noticed about thirty seconds after I hit send that I'd sent it 
to the list.  Magnification of stupidity!  Thanks for the civil response.

-Peter


Martin Ebourne wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 18:57, Peter Porter wrote:
>  
>
>>I emailed you a few weeks ago about getting BoxBackup to compile under 
>>Solaris.  I noticed a mention of Solaris attempts in a few emails 
>>regarding the latest builds.  What's the status on that?  Anything I can 
>>help out with, at the least as far as testing goes?
>>    
>>
>
>I was doing this. I had a bit of spare time and thought it'd be fun(!).
>I thought it would only take half a day, but it's taken me a bit longer
>than that. Unfortunately last week I only got 1 hour to spend on it so
>didn't make much progress. This week it's gone totally manic so no
>chance probably for a few days.
>
>The status is that it all compiles and I'm trying to get it through
>Ben's test suite. The test suite is very comprehensive and hence it is
>catching lots of problems. Which is, of course, good! It passes the
>first few tests but is failing on backupstore as described in a previous
>email. (Something about deleted!=0 IIRC.)
>
>Ben suggested to look at the log files generated by the programs the
>test script ran. I diffed them against those from Linux (where the test
>passes) but it came up with no differences.
>
>I also copied my changes over to Linux and ran them there (Linux being
>sys-v like it all compiled ok). The tests all passed on Linux so I don't
>think it's a problem with my changes, but instead yet another Solaris
>problem I need to crack.
>
>If anyone else wants to/can look at this I'm happy to post the patch,
>but otherwise I'll plod on with it when I get a moment. Some of these
>tests where it runs servers up and does things to them are quite hard to
>debug. :(
>
>  
>
>>Also, where would I go about getting the bleeding edge release?  I still 
>>only see 0.08 on the site.
>>    
>>
>
>>From Ben's email, the latest release is at:
>
>http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/bin/boxbackup-0.08PLUS2.tgz
>
>  
>
>>I apologize for bothering you with these questions, but I figured better 
>>you than you and the entire list!
>>    
>>
>
>I think you got the whole list as it happens. Which is a good thing
>really...
>
>  
>
>>p.s. - I am now happily using BoxBackup between my two Linux servers, 
>>and I'm incredibly happy with it.
>>    
>>
>
>Me too. :)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Martin.
>
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Send me the changes you've made, I would enjoy taking a look at it.  I
should have some spare time over the next week or two to chase the
errors from the tests around.  Email me off list if you need somewhere
to post it, I have space.<br>
<br>
Thanks for all the hard work Martin (and, of course, Ben); I hope that
it did turn out to be fun :)  It will sure make my life considerably
easier.<br>
<br>
...and I noticed about thirty seconds after I hit send that I'd sent it
to the list.  Magnification of stupidity!  Thanks for the civil
response.<br>
<br>
-Peter<br>
<br>
<br>
Martin Ebourne wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid1101151714.10670.16.camel at avenin.ebourne.me.uk"
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  <pre wrap="">On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 18:57, Peter Porter wrote:
  </pre>
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    <pre wrap="">I emailed you a few weeks ago about getting BoxBackup to compile under 
Solaris.  I noticed a mention of Solaris attempts in a few emails 
regarding the latest builds.  What's the status on that?  Anything I can 
help out with, at the least as far as testing goes?
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=""><!---->
I was doing this. I had a bit of spare time and thought it'd be fun(!).
I thought it would only take half a day, but it's taken me a bit longer
than that. Unfortunately last week I only got 1 hour to spend on it so
didn't make much progress. This week it's gone totally manic so no
chance probably for a few days.

The status is that it all compiles and I'm trying to get it through
Ben's test suite. The test suite is very comprehensive and hence it is
catching lots of problems. Which is, of course, good! It passes the
first few tests but is failing on backupstore as described in a previous
email. (Something about deleted!=0 IIRC.)

Ben suggested to look at the log files generated by the programs the
test script ran. I diffed them against those from Linux (where the test
passes) but it came up with no differences.

I also copied my changes over to Linux and ran them there (Linux being
sys-v like it all compiled ok). The tests all passed on Linux so I don't
think it's a problem with my changes, but instead yet another Solaris
problem I need to crack.

If anyone else wants to/can look at this I'm happy to post the patch,
but otherwise I'll plod on with it when I get a moment. Some of these
tests where it runs servers up and does things to them are quite hard to
debug. :(

  </pre>
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    <pre wrap="">Also, where would I go about getting the bleeding edge release?  I still 
only see 0.08 on the site.
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=""><!---->
>From Ben's email, the latest release is at:

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/bin/boxbackup-0.08PLUS2.tgz">http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/bin/boxbackup-0.08PLUS2.tgz</a>

  </pre>
  <blockquote type="cite">
    <pre wrap="">I apologize for bothering you with these questions, but I figured better 
you than you and the entire list!
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=""><!---->
I think you got the whole list as it happens. Which is a good thing
really...

  </pre>
  <blockquote type="cite">
    <pre wrap="">p.s. - I am now happily using BoxBackup between my two Linux servers, 
and I'm incredibly happy with it.
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=""><!---->
Me too. :)

Cheers,

Martin.

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