On 12/27/25 12:07 PM, G.W. Haywood wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, jbk wrote:
With BackkupPC-XS-0.63rc1 installed building
BackupPC-4.4.1rc1
stalls at this point in the build process:
...
...
I believe you're trying to create a Red Hat RPM.? ...
...
Correct, I am trying to build within the distro
packaging system.
I did get further on the BackupPC-4.4.1rc1 build but I
am now choking on a new dependency "perl-SCGI" that does
not exist in the RH and derivatives src.rpm system.
...
Yes, unfortunately the various distro flavours tend to
have their own
particular templates for naming their packages. Usually
the names are
based (with varying degrees of looseness) on the names of
the upstream
packages but there are sometimes curious naming quirks
caused e.g. by
conflicts with other package names, so it isn't always
easy to guess a
package name even if you know what's supposed to be in it.
Just FYI the SCGI module is one of a couple of ways of
speeding up the
response of a Web server. BackupPC will run without it
(and will also
without the Web server). I routinely run backupPC without
running the
Web server or the SCGI interface layer. But having said
that you will
almost certainly want to use the BackupPC Web interface,
so I'm not in
any way suggesting that as a workaround.
There are several ways to set up the (S)CGI interface.
See "Step 9:"
in the documentation at
https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html
which explains that BackupPC can be used via plain CGI
instead of SCGI.
Be aware that with SCGI there may be security issues to
consider. See
"SCGI Setup" in the documentation, the comments in
config.pl, and also
perhaps the first few lines of
.../BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_Admin_SCGI.
I ended up installing the perl-SCGI source from CPAN per the
included readme. Once I did so I was able to complete the
"makeDist" phase. From that I was able to build the src.rpm
with a modified spec file from 4.4.0 then built that with mock.
BackupPC-4.4.1rc1 is now installed and I can access the CGI
interface with my user login. Still to do is redefine the
config.pl and hosts.
Ged, Thanks for the history on the inclusion of perl-SCGI as
it allowed me to take a step back and look at the RH code
again, in particular the config.pl which clearly included
perl-SCGI as a step in the process so I took a chance and
installed it per above. It is a build dependency just not
once the src.rpm is created.
Happy New Year
--
Jim KR
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