Martin Bergner escreveu: > It was a bad decision to promote hubackup (which works in most cases) > and hurestore as a main backup tool since they are not finished. I tried > to help Sivan getting hurestore to work, but didn't succed. > Martin,
do you agree it would be best to develop hubackup off the distribution, and re-include it in the archive when it's ready? Without further frustrating users do you think maybe it would be best to develop hubackup off the distribution, and re-include it in the archive when it's ready? > Maybe someone else has a better idea, so I will create some background > information for someone to start. > > The problem with hurestore is, that you need to create an interface to > dar. > > I tried the dar python bindings, but they are unstable and also > unfinished. I have a bzr branch on lp for both the bindings (dar-python) > and hurestore (look in my branches) which uses these bindings and can > show the contents of the archive. The problem is however, that there you > cannot have any statistics about the archive (the bindings fail there > and I didn't get them to work) and that is needed at some point. > This doesn't explain why the restore GUI refuses to start. Why does it happen? > I also tried to interface dar directly, but is this error-prone and > quite slow. The usage of appropriate bindings would be much better. > > I am willing to help anyone starting on that, but you should have some > (or better good) knowledge on python, pygtk, python bindings, swig, c++ > and (at the end) building debian packages. I think that these are a lot > of requirements for such a small tool. Of course, the swig and binding > part is optional, but preferred. Dar is written in C++, so is the > library. If you want to use (fix) the bindings you need to know that as > well. > > Contact me if you like to help. > It seems dealing with dar itself is a compromise of time, and availability of a proper binding. I have some Perl skills, and have seen Python, maybe I can help with that if there's some prototype somewhere to give a headstart. If the GUI (pygtk) was at least working, it could be a fast thing (not for Jaunty anymore). Anyway, IMHO it should be removed from the archives until it's finished. regards FF -- hurestore will always crash on startup (unfinished tool) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/64594 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
