On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 14:29 -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 01:34:32PM -0400, Simon Bonner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm a user of nssbackup and noticed today that the package has been > > out-of-date for a while. A comment was posted to the maintainer on Feb 7 > > and the package was flagged out of date on Feb 21, but it seems that no > > action has been taken since. > > > > I'd be happy to maintain it if someone can offer a little help with > > building the new version. I've tried building both the most recent 0.2 > > release and the new 0.3.1 release, and neither currently work. Both give > > the same error message: > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "setup.py", line 3, in <module> > > from setuptools import setup, find_packages > > ImportError: No module named setuptools > > > > I've seen that several packages have had similar errors fixed by > > installing the python2-distribute package, but I have this installed > > already. > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > > Simon > > > > > > The name doesn't lie. Not. So. Simple. > > This build-sys is utterly insane. Upstream has done an amazing job of > stopping packagers at every turn if you're not a debian distro. It's > really more than just changing setup.py to use python2, it's a whole > host of removing the crazy. I've no idea if this actually works, but it > builds without errors: > > http://pkgbuild.com/~dreisner/nssbackup-0.3.1-1.src.tar.gz > > dave
Thanks Dave! I gave your PKGBUILD a try and the package did build and install, but... the individual python scripts also call python instead of python2, which needed to be changed. Unfortunately, it's now complaining that I don't have a gnome-session running. I switched from gnome to XFCE several months ago and must still have had gnome services running in the background so that Nssbackup continued to work. Hmmm... not sure if I want to do that again or start thinking about a different backup solution. Thanks for taking the time to figure out the PKGBUILD. Much appreciated! Cheers, Simon
