Re: installing backuppc-xs locally

Hi there,

Re: [BackupPC-users] installing backuppc-xs locally

On Sat, 15 Nov 2025, daggs via BackupPC-users wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2025, Michael Stowe wrote:
> > On 2025-11-14 06:03, daggs via BackupPC-users wrote:
> > > 
> > > as alpine linux doesn't provide backuppc, I'd like to build it,
> > > but I don't want the installation to be to the /, I want it
> > > locally under my home folder, rsync-bpc works, now I'm tackling
> > > backuppc-xs, is there a way to install it locally?
> > 
> > It would seem harder to install remotely.  Isn't anything you install, 
> > installed locally?
> > 
> > It's Linux.  Install things wherever you want.  Not that this is a best 
> > practice, but it would be very hard for any software to prevent you from 
> > doing so.
> 
> as usual, I didn't explained myself properly, by locally I means
> locally to the user, e.g. inside his home folder and not the default
> location at / my apologies for not being clear.

Firstly thank you for your attention to list etiquette when posting.

Secondly, yes, around here and in the networking business generally we
usually use 'local' to mean "on a computer somewhere around here that
I can touch with my fingers if I want to" - and 'remote' usually means
"somewhere else on the planet, I might have no idea where").

Thirdly - and to answer your question - if you grab the latest version
of BackupPC-XS the instructions for doing exactly what you want are in
the README and INSTALL files in the top-level directory.  I left them
there because for my testing before I released v0.63rc1 I had to tweak
the build system that way, and it seemed useful to leave the option in
there for anyone who might want to test the build before they actually
took the plunge and installed it for the whole system.  I would really
welcome feedback about any problems you might encounter with the build
so do please let me know if you have any.  (In order to fix things to
comply with the GNU terms of use I had to be rather severe with my
changes to the build system; the scripts still need work and are not
yet well tested.)  Both the latest realease and the current 'stable'
release (0.62) use 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker' as part of the build process.
This means that, to specify where you want to install, you should be
able to use the same method for both 0.62 and 0.63rc1 - but AFAIK it's
only documented in the README/INSTALL files that I wrote for 0.63rc1.
I've never tested it for 0.62 so YMMV.  FWIW I've been running 0.63rc1
here on a production server for almost a week with no obvious issues.

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this may sometimes cause a delay in my replies.

-- 

73,
Ged.


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