Thanks for the info Jesse! It's nice to get the info right from the horses mouth (mean that as a compliment) :) -----Original Message----- From: psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jesse Keating Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 2:49 PM To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: hugo.rabson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Plans to include Mondo Rescue backup in Red Hat distributions? On Thursday 11 September 2003 23:32, support@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I was reading up on Mondo Rescue which is an open source one button > restore backup solution at http://www.mondorescue.org/ > > Their site says that currently this package is shipped with most > Linux distributions except Red Hat 8 and 9. > > On the Mondo site it says "Red Hat 8.0 and Mandrake 9.0 break several > dependencies and require special RPM'sâ > Has anyone had experience installing Mondo and were there any > problems, server crahses, etc? Hrm, the statement about RHL8 is rather false. It doesn't break any deps, rather requires some packages that aren't included, such as afio, lzo, lzop, and possibly buffer. Previous versions of Red Hat required an updated version of syslinux, which needed to include isolinux. This isn't the case w/ RHL8 anymore. > I was wondering if anyone had trouble with Mondo running on a Red Hat > 8 2.4.x box? > Is it reliable, secure, etc? I was thinking about using it. It's reliable if you stick w/ the stable packages. There has been a LOT of development work done over the last few months, and we're in a feature freeze, code cleanup process right now, trying to get another stable release out there as a candidate for inclusion in various distros. I'm the RPM maintainer of mondo (although I've slacked a bit as of late) and I'll probably be the champion of trying to get it included. Mondo itself isn't terribly insecure, but it is a root only tool, so if somebody is running mondo, then they're root and you've got more to worry about then something they might do w/ mondo. We try to fix any security flaw that is pointed out to us though. > Also does anyone know of any plans of Red Hat shipping Mondo with > future RH distributions? Most likely, this will wind up being a community provided package. RH is trying to thin down what they provide in the base distro, and rely upon community provided packages for the extra things like this. We may try to get mondo hosted at freshrpms or one of the other respectable repositories, but I'd like to get the next stable release out and stable before we persue such plans. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
