Re: [BackupPC-users] RPM for BackupPC 4

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From: Richard Shaw [mailto:hobbes1...@gmail.com] 
Sent: den 18 mars 2017 13:49
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] RPM for BackupPC 4
 
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Kenneth Porter mailto:sh...@sewingwitch.com> > wrote:
I know Benjamin Lefoul took over as packager for Fedora. Benjamin, is there
an RPM coming soon for v4? I've got a CentOS 7 system suitable for testing
it on.
 
I actually just recently took over maintainership of BackupPC for Fedora and 
EPEL. There's still quite a bit of work to be done.
 
There were several patches applied which I had to evaluate if they were still 
necessary which is done. There's also two new requirements, BackupPC-XS and 
rsync-bpc which needed Review Requests which are also done but rsync-bpc still 
needs to be built and it will be at least a week before I can push them to 
stable.
 
I actually plan on starting with a COPR for testing purposes since I don't want 
to automatically start upgrading people. In fact I plan on building version 4 
on F26, and rawhide only for that reason.
 
I'm still working on how to properly stop BackupPC from SystemD, all the 
methods I've tried exit with a code which SystemD interprets as a failure..
 
 
 
Good to hear it’s being worked on!
 
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Re: [BackupPC-users] RPM for BackupPC 4

[Richard Shaw]

I've got the package building, installing, and even starting the server but
I can't get the webpage to work, still have some debugging to do.

Thanks,
Richard
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Re: [BackupPC-users] RPM for BackupPC 4

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Saturday, March 18, 2017 8:48 AM -0500 Richard Shaw 
 wrote:

> I actually just recently took over maintainership of BackupPC for Fedora
> and EPEL.

It looks like the Fedora page for the package still lists Benjamin as 
maintainer, and I remember him doing that back in November when the 
original maintainer went MIA. Thanks for picking this up.



> I actually plan on starting with a COPR for testing purposes since I don't
> want to automatically start upgrading people. In fact I plan on building
> version 4 on F26, and rawhide only for that reason.

I look forward to seeing this. My C7 system has a blank USB drive ready to 
start mirroring my live BackupPC3 system with v4. I just want to install it 
as an RPM. (I've done some custom packaging myself and have debugged a lot 
of spec files. That COPR system looks pretty nice for that kind of work.)

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Re: [BackupPC-users] RPM for BackupPC 4

[Richard Shaw]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Les Mikesell  wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Richard Shaw 
> wrote:
> >>
> > I actually plan on starting with a COPR for testing purposes since I
> don't
> > want to automatically start upgrading people. In fact I plan on building
> > version 4 on F26, and rawhide only for that reason.
>
> Are you planning to try to make one package that upgrades without
> breaking or a separate backuppc4 package so the admin can choose
> when/if to upgrade?


My current plan is to update F26 and up to the new version. When you do
distro upgrades there's not a requirement that everything works without
user intervention.

For F25 and EPEL 6 & 7 I'm thinking of offering a COPR[1] as I'm doubtful
that the current package meets the current packaging guidelines, some of
which I'm working on for version 4 but ti's been non-trivial to fix.

Thanks,
Richard

[1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/
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Re: [BackupPC-users] RPM for BackupPC 4

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Richard Shaw  wrote:
>>
> I actually plan on starting with a COPR for testing purposes since I don't
> want to automatically start upgrading people. In fact I plan on building
> version 4 on F26, and rawhide only for that reason.

Are you planning to try to make one package that upgrades without
breaking or a separate backuppc4 package so the admin can choose
when/if to upgrade?

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Re: [BackupPC-users] RPM for BackupPC 4

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Kenneth Porter 
wrote:

> I know Benjamin Lefoul took over as packager for Fedora. Benjamin, is there
> an RPM coming soon for v4? I've got a CentOS 7 system suitable for testing
> it on.


I actually just recently took over maintainership of BackupPC for Fedora
and EPEL. There's still quite a bit of work to be done.

There were several patches applied which I had to evaluate if they were
still necessary which is done. There's also two new requirements,
BackupPC-XS and rsync-bpc which needed Review Requests which are also done
but rsync-bpc still needs to be built and it will be at least a week before
I can push them to stable.

I actually plan on starting with a COPR for testing purposes since I don't
want to automatically start upgrading people. In fact I plan on building
version 4 on F26, and rawhide only for that reason.

I'm still working on how to properly stop BackupPC from SystemD, all the
methods I've tried exit with a code which SystemD interprets as a failure..

Thanks,
Richard
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