Re: hdup 1.6.16 gzip/bzip issue

[On 26 Jun, @16:11, Nathan wrote in "[hdup-dev] hdup 1.6.16 gzip/bz ..."]
> Hello,
> 
>    I was testing hdup yesterday to do a backup to a remote machine. I
> set compression to bzip in the configuration file of the local machine.
> When I logged into the remote machine I found the file extension was
> tar.gz when I expected tar.bz2. I ran the command file against the
> filename and it returned that it was the bzip2 format. So hdup had
> respected my choice of bzip, but a bug had caused the extension to be
> incorrect. I was about to send in a bug report when I realized maybe it
> would work as expected if I defined compression=bzip on both sides. So I
> did and it had the correct extension this time. I have looked over the
> documentation and couldn't find mention of this.

It could well be that you're right. I'll look at it.

>    The documentation is fairly good. I am a big fan of learn by example.
> I do think the documentation could use some review for clarity.

well... be my guest :)

>    Thank you very much for this project. It suits my needs very well.
> One thing that would be nice is to switch the project from using mcrypt
> to use gpg. The reasoning is two fold. One is that gpg is much more
> commonly included in distributions. I am having to hunt down and build
> my own packages for mcrypt and libmcrypt. The second is that you can
> probably get better security in a number of ways from gpg.

that is an interesting idea. You can use gpg in the same way as mcrypt?
If so, it is not a problem to add this functionality,

grtz  Miek


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