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OpenBSD And The Indie Archive
Posted on 2025-01-08
OpenBSD AndThe Indie Archive
I installed OpenBSD yesterday on a very old box running a Celeron with 4GB ram. I found a page with good instructions for installing XFCE and that made the desktop a lot better.
https://www.birkey.co/2022-01-29-openbsd-7-xfce-desktop.html
I did get Indie Archive to run on OpenBSD but I am not recommending it because the version of cp that comes with OpenBSD does not support the -l option which enables links for rsnapshot. This was shown in the error message about cp -al.
I installed coreutils which has the gnu version of cp, gcp. After replacing cp with a renamed gcp Indie Archive ran fine.
I don't know enough about OpenBSD, cp, and gpc to recommend doing this. So I'm not recommending OpenBSD as a platform for Indie Archive.
I don't mind rewriting my scripts for a different OS. I don't want to have to change rsnapshot code or OS essentials.
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Posted on 2025-01-08
OpenBSD AndThe Indie Archive
I installed OpenBSD yesterday on a very old box running a Celeron with 4GB ram. I found a page with good instructions for installing XFCE and that made the desktop a lot better.
https://www.birkey.co/2022-01-29-openbsd-7-xfce-desktop.html
I did get Indie Archive to run on OpenBSD but I am not recommending it because the version of cp that comes with OpenBSD does not support the -l option which enables links for rsnapshot. This was shown in the error message about cp -al.
I installed coreutils which has the gnu version of cp, gcp. After replacing cp with a renamed gcp Indie Archive ran fine.
I don't know enough about OpenBSD, cp, and gpc to recommend doing this. So I'm not recommending OpenBSD as a platform for Indie Archive.
I don't mind rewriting my scripts for a different OS. I don't want to have to change rsnapshot code or OS essentials.
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