Simon J. Gerraty wrote:

> > I believe I've always deinstalled the amanda pkg before recompiling it.
> Oh?  Isn't that rather dangerous?  I mean if the new build fails,
> you'd be unable to do backups until it was sorted out.

It's completely safe because I only install binary packages on
production machines, which means I can just reinstall the old version.
That's why binary packages are a very important feature to me.

And, of course, you have to be really careful when you upgrade something
as critical as your backup system.

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