on 2-25-2010 1:44 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: > Hi all, > > I installed BackupPC on one of my Centos 5.4-machines following the wiki at > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC#head-725ed151d366bcf182cea92f765c373900cfc9dc, > where BackupPC is installed from the c5-testing repo. > > root@mach012 ~/ [0]# rpm -qa backuppc > backuppc-3.1.0-1.el5.centos > root@mach012 ~/ [0]# > > Seeing how there's been some updates to BackupPC in the near past, I thought > I'd run a yum update to get the updated package. That didn't work. So I > searched pbone.net for a BackupPC package on CentOS5 but didn't find any. > Doing the same search for RHEL5 gave me two packages (one for i386 and one for > x86_64); v3.1.0-5. > Looking more closely I saw that the RHEL5-packages were from epel, a repo one > maybe shouldn't choose as a primary repo for ones CentOS-systems if you can > help it. At least that's the impression I got from the various posts to this > list. > > I thought all packages available from the prominent American upstream provider > got a treatment from the CentOS crew? Am I wrong or am I missing something > really basic, or some part of the CentOS philosophy here? Or isn't BackupPC a > package worthy of being CentOSified? 8-) > 3.1.0 is the latest stable version... The newer version has been marked beta for a few years now
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