Re: BackupPC and EPEL10

Hi there,

On Tue, 18 Nov 2025, Jamie Burchell wrote:

> I just discovered that BackupPC is currently not available in EPEL10 and
> disappointing, it looks like it may not be added:
>
>> _*Unless someone else wants to support it, I don't plan to branch
>> BackupPC as the upstream developer "disappeared" in the last couple years
>> and there has been no activity.*_
>
> Source: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370641
>
> I have added a comment that the project has a new maintainer and activity
> now. It would be a shame for it to not become easily available in new RHEL
> versions.

Don't worry, sometimes things on the ground get a bit ahead of the
tracking systems.  The Red Hat maintainer and I have been in touch
with each other since the middle of the year - in fact it was he who
encouraged me to take my chainsaw to the BackupPC-XS build scripts
when I'd really rather have been getting my teeth into rsync-bpc.
He's well aware of developments in BackupPC.  Occasionally I'll BCC
him in my posts to this List.

On Tue, 18 Nov 2025, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> I'd recommend processing any outstanding Bugzilla items in their tracker
> and eliminating the need for whatever patches they've had to make in the
> EPEL package. Make it as painless as possible to update their EPEL package.

These are the issues for Red Hat/BackupPC that I know of:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=backuppc

Apart from the 'new version available' alerts, all relate to the use
of the zlib bundled in BackupPC-XS, and were eliminated when I removed
the zlib code from BackupPC-XS 0.63rc1.  Bear in mind that the issues
were raised semi-automatically, and most installations would never use
the bundled zlib in any case.  Issues 2366405, 2366407, 2366411 and
2366425 are all the same one for four different Red Hat distributions.

If anyone has any other pointers to issue trackers for BackupPC (and
the two supporting packages, BackupPC-XS and rsync-bpc, and of course
*other* than those on github/backuppc/), please post to this thread.

> One could also set up a tiny yum repo with only the BackupPC packages
> for the world to use. I've gone this way for a lot of 3rd party
> packages. MariaDB and the Kea DHCP server, for example. You get the
> benefits of package management without needing to stay with an ancient
> version.

It's easy enough to set up the repo, and if the target system doesn't
already have Apache that's pretty straightforward too.  If there's an
Apache already on the target system I'm not quite so sure - comments?

-- 

73,
Ged.


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