On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, sim wrote: > Dean's package seems to depend on a newer libc6, this is what I got on > a sarge machine: > > puddle:~# dpkg -i rdiff-backup_1.0.4-0.cvs20060120_i386.deb > Selecting previously deselected package rdiff-backup. > (Reading database ... 25685 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking rdiff-backup (from rdiff-backup_1.0.4-0.cvs20060120_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rdiff-backup: > rdiff-backup depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1); however: > Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.2.ds1-22. > dpkg: error processing rdiff-backup (--install): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > rdiff-backup > > > Dean this package was created on a machine running etch right?
i run unstable... is it called etch now? i never pay attention and just always run unstable :) > I used apt-get source to download the rdiff-backup source on to a machine > running etch, then I copied the source tree to a sarge machine and > built it there. > > Now rdiff-backup backs up from etch to sarge without any warnings. > > You need to have librsync-dev and the debian packaging tools installed. one more useful command to know: apt-get build-dep rdiff-backup i'm pretty sure that would have hauled in everything you needed to build it... if not then the source package has a bug :) -dean _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
