[users] Request for perl-IO-Dirent

[Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)]

Dag Wieers wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
>
>> I'm using BackupPC on CentOS 4 and was happy yo see I was able to  
>> get the
>> required Perl modules (perl-IO-Zlib, perl-Archive-Zip and perl-File- 
>> RsyncP)
>> from RPMforge. The latest version of BackupPC (3.1.0) seems to be  
>> able perform
>> 20-30% better if the optional module IO::Dirent is installed. Any  
>> chance this
>> could be packaged in RPMforge as well? Or is this not the right  
>> place for
>> requests?
>
> I have added a SPEC file and the package will become available soon.

Nice, thanks a lot.

>> P.S. A BackupPC package would also be very welcome of course...
>
> Yes, I think so too. Since you are using it, can you construct a  
> working
> SPEC file for your system ? I can then review it and add it to  
> RPMforge.

I don't know a lot about creating SPEC files. I have only rebuilt rpms  
and I know a bit of the theory of packaging, but I have virtually no  
experience with it. BackupPC has an interactive installer, I believe  
that complicates things a bit?

I also believe someone maintains a package for SME Server, which is  
based on CentOS, so maybe his SPEC file can be as the basis for the  
distributions supported by RPMforge? The SME version is available  
here: http://sme.firewall-services.com/backuppc/ It has an added GUI  
for SME server though, so that might have to be removed for an  
RPMforge version. Also see this announcement: http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03252.html

Could anyone with more RPM knowledge than me check this out?

Nils Breunese.
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