Well, if its that soon, I can wait. Thanks.
on Sunday 12/28/2008 Andrew Ferguson([email protected]) wrote > > On Dec 28, 2008, at 6:24 AM, John covici wrote: > > On my Linux system, I would like to run the cvs version of > > rdiff-backup by installing all the files in their proper places, etc. > > Is this possible? If so, could you let me know the steps -- seems > > like all the pieces are not in the right places to do this. > > John, > > It is generally not recommended to run the CVS version by installing > all of the pieces in the "installed" location -- if you do that, then > you cannot use 'cvs update' to update all of the pieces at once. The > recommended way to run it is to follow the directions in CVS-README. > If you insist on installing the CVS version, then use the 'makedist' > command in the dist folder. Please don't give it a version number of > an actual release. (eg, use '1.2.3-John-CVS') That will build > a .tar.gz, just like the ones you can download from the website. > > If you are simply eager for the long list of current bugfixes, I > suggest waiting. The next release will be in 0-2 days. :-) > > > Andrew > > > PS -- > For example, `rdiff-backup` in my $PATH is just a shell script: > #!/bin/sh > > RDB_CVS="/Users/owsla/backup coding/rdiff-backup-local" > PYTHONPATH="$RDB_CVS" "$RDB_CVS"/rdiff-backup "$@" > > > (although, maybe $@ shouldn't be in "" ? ... hmm, that's always > worked, so far) -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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
