On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:39:08PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > There are other incompatibilities, for example in the repository format. > > Borg provides a `borg upgrade` tool that performs a one-way conversion > > of Attic repos to Borg repos. Just creating an 'attic -> borg' alias > > would not be enough; any automated backup scripts would still fail. > > Then I don’t know. Either we mark Attic as superseded by Borg anyway, > or we need another mechanism to mark a package as “discouraged”?
I've attached a patch that marks Attic as superseded by Borg. I'd like to put it on core-updates. That way, we can mention it in the release notes of the next Guix release, and hopefully people will notice the change. WDYT?
From 374f81963d3ba4ec4a5e48c12848032ca8085aaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:59:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: attic: Superseded by borg.
* gnu/packages/backup.scm (attic): Superseded by borg.
* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-llfuse-0.41): Remove variable.
---
gnu/packages/backup.scm | 47 +++++------------------------------------------
gnu/packages/python.scm | 16 ----------------
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/backup.scm b/gnu/packages/backup.scm
index dcab95f..c5908c8 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/backup.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/backup.scm
@@ -321,48 +321,6 @@ to a remote location, and only the differences will be
transmitted. Finally,
rdiff-backup is easy to use and settings have sensible defaults.")
(license license:gpl2+)))
-(define-public attic
- (package
- (name "attic")
- (version "0.16")
- (source (origin
- (method url-fetch)
- (uri (string-append
- "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/A/Attic/Attic-";
- version ".tar.gz"))
- (sha256
- (base32
- "0b5skd36r4c0915lwpkqg5hxm49gls9pprs1b7hc40910wlcsl36"))))
- (build-system python-build-system)
- (arguments
- `(#:phases
- (modify-phases %standard-phases
- (add-before
- 'build 'set-openssl-prefix
- (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
- (setenv "ATTIC_OPENSSL_PREFIX" (assoc-ref inputs "openssl"))
- #t)))))
- (inputs
- `(("acl" ,acl)
- ("openssl" ,openssl)
- ("python-msgpack" ,python-msgpack)
-
- ;; Attic is probably incompatible with llfuse > 0.41.
- ;; These links are to discussions of llfuse compatibility from
- ;; the borg project. Borg is a recent fork of attic, and attic
- ;; has not been updated since the fork, so it's likely that
- ;; llfuse compatibility requirements are still the same.
- ;; https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/642
- ;; https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/643
- ("python-llfuse" ,python-llfuse-0.41)))
- (synopsis "Deduplicating backup program")
- (description "Attic is a deduplicating backup program. The main goal of
-Attic is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data
-deduplication technique used makes Attic suitable for daily backups since only
-changes are stored.")
- (home-page "https://attic-backup.org/";)
- (license license:bsd-3)))
-
(define-public libchop
(package
(name "libchop")
@@ -456,3 +414,8 @@ stored. The authenticated encryption technique makes it
suitable for backups
to not fully trusted targets. Borg is a fork of Attic.")
(home-page "https://borgbackup.github.io/borgbackup/";)
(license license:bsd-3)))
+
+(define-public attic
+ (package (inherit borg)
+ (name "attic")
+ (properties `((superseded . ,borg)))))
diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index f6ea28d..557e1d6 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -5516,22 +5516,6 @@ should be stored on various operating systems.")
(strip-python2-variant python-llfuse)))
(propagated-inputs `(("python2-contextlib2" ,python2-contextlib2)))))
-;; For attic-0.16
-(define-public python-llfuse-0.41
- (package (inherit python-llfuse)
- (version "0.41.1")
- (source (origin
- (method url-fetch)
- (uri (string-append
- "https://bitbucket.org/nikratio/python-llfuse/downloads/";
- "llfuse-" version ".tar.bz2"))
- (sha256
- (base32
- "1imlqw9b73086y97izr036f58pgc5akv4ihc2rrf8j5h75jbrlaa"))))
- ;; Python-LLFUSE < 0.42 includes underscore.js, which is MIT (expat)
- ;; licensed. The rest of the package is licensed under LGPL2.0 or later.
- (license (list license:expat license:lgpl2.0+))))
-
(define-public python-msgpack
(package
(name "python-msgpack")
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