> On Friday 20 November 2009 00:19:59 Scot Wilcoxon wrote: >> I ran headlong into the version incompatibility problem, because I'm >> running different versions of Ubuntu thus there are different >> rdiff-backup >> versions packaged on the two systems. ... > > Well, there is a stated goal to compatibility in the stable branch, which > now > happen to be 1.2.x. In other word it should be safe to run the Ubuntu 9.04 > rdiff-backup (1.2.7) and the Ubuntu 9.10 rdiff-backup (1.2.8). > > The fact that you will receive a warning (not an error) is probably due to > historic and/or cautionary reasons. ...
Actually, I did get a full set of debug-style error messages. And, indeed, one system is running an old Ubuntu. So I'm glad that you mentioned that, so I no longer think that r-b doesn't know how to emit a simple warning line. The collections which cover multiple versions of Ubuntu (and whatever similar ones might exist for other distros) should be documented someplace. Probably at least in a Wiki page about version level compatibility, so there will be a place for present and future compatibility notes. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
