Hi, I'm redirecting this to <backuppc-users> as it's a usage issue.
Jon Craig wrote on 2008-07-22 13:42:33 -0400 [[BackupPC-devel] Ubuntu Upgrade from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 problem]: > I started with the Ubuntu backuppc package that is based on "3.0.0". > Once I was convinced that BackupPC was the way to go I downloaded and > installed the "3.1.0" and ran the configure. Bad idea. You shouldn't mix packaged and tarball installs. Your dpkg status database now contains references to files belonging to a deb-package named "backuppc" which possibly don't exist any longer or at the very least have different contents. To make things worse, dpkg "knows" that the installed version is 3.0.0 (possibly with a Ubuntu package revision number appended). 'apt-get install --reinstall backuppc' is guaranteed to get things horribly wrong, as are 'apt-get install backuppc'/'apt-get [dist-]upgrade' when there's a new BackupPC package in Ubuntu - including possibly a security update of 3.0.0, and 'apt-get remove backuppc' as there are probably new files unknown to dpkg - possibly duplicates in non-Ubuntu locations. dpkg thinks it knows about the package and its files, but this knowledge is now outdated. There is no simple way to recover from this. > I then looked at the configure.pl from the install package and found > that it set $useFHS to 1 when it detected a "/etc/BackupPC" directory. > It's my guess that at one point this was the naming for the directory > and it underwent a rename. Wrong. It still is /etc/BackupPC for the tarball version. The Debian and Ubuntu packages use /etc/backuppc. I think this is a good idea, because it discourages mixing up package and tarball :-). Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
