deb package coda-backup conflicts with openafs-client because of /usr/share/man/man8/backup.8.gz
krichter722 opened this issue · 2 comments
The name backup for the manpage (and I assume the binary as well) seems troublesome.
experienced with 6.9.6-2+ubuntu16.04 on Ubuntu 16.04
This was expected because both OpenAFS and Coda are both forks of the same AFS codebase.
Here at CMU we haven't actually used backup in a long time and so we normally don't even bother installing it. We have successfully used Amanda to back up the 'voldump' output from volutil dump, and we have for a long time used BackupPC, with a script that wrapped volutil dump | codadump2tar.
I guess these could be renamed to codabackup, but it seems odd to just randomly stick 'coda' in front of every binary name.
Thought about this and it seems to me the best solution at this point would be to remove Coda's high-level backup tools (backup, tape.pl, etc.) and leave the low level stuff (volutil dump, codadump2tar).
The reasoning being, we don't use the high level tools ourselves so any bugs in the code are most likely not discovered until someone tries to use them to back up (or worse, restore) precious data and it fails.