Re: BackupPC 3.2 and bundled perl libraries.
Richard Shaw <[email protected]>
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Ping.... Thanks, Richard On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Richard Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to help the BackupPC package maintainer for Fedora get the > new version released and we're having an issue[1]. > > To quickly summarize: > - BackupPC bundles two perl libraries: Net:FTP::AutoReconnect and RetrHandle. > - Fedora, like some other linux distros, discourages bundled libraries. > - RetrHandle seems to be broken[2] for all recent Perl versions . (Or > at least doesn't pass it's tests) > > Therefore no BackupPC 3.2.x for Fedora. > > Two questions: > 1. Why was Net::FTP::RetrHandle used when it appears to be so broken? > 2. Is there a problem with just removing the modules and shipping a > package without FTP support? Will that break anything? (other than the > obvious) > > Thanks, > Richard > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627373#c7 > [2] http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/N/Net-FTP-RetrHandle.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ BackupPC-devel mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/