Re: Trying to install beta in CentOS 8 -- missing py3libacl, python3-pyxattr

I'll spin up versions for EPEL7 & 8 that have the packages optional,
but I'll also have a quick look at making the available via copr, since
they build for F32 with no issues.
Frank
On Mon, 2020-01-06 at 09:18 +0000, EricZolf wrote:
> Hi,
> You could simply install the libraries with pip: `sudo pip3 install
> pylibacl pyxattr` (or with `pip3 install --user ...` if you only want
> to use rdiff-backup under one specific user). Just make sure you
> don't install both via rpm and pip. The README [1] describes how to
> install the wheel.
> @Frank the dependencies py3libacl and python3-pyxattr of the RPM
> should only be recommendations IMHO
> Hope this helps, Eric
> [1] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup#on-linux
> 
> On January 6, 2020 4:26:40 AM UTC, Robert Nichols <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > On 1/5/20 5:00 PM, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> > > CCing Dan which introduced python3-pyxattr in EPEL some time ago.
> > > On 2020-01-05 22:12, Robert Nichols wrote:
> > > > Installing version 1.4.0b0-1-el8 from the frankcrawford COPR
> > > > fails
> > with
> > > > missing dependencies py3libacl and python3-pyxattr. I'd really
> > > > like
> > to
> > > > do some testing before 2.0 is released. What should I install?
> > Python
> > > > version on CentOS 8 is 3.6.8.
> > > 
> > > The problem could be that python3-pyxattr seems to be available
> > > (as areleased package) only in EPEL77:
> > > https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/python3-pyxattr
> > 
> > Yes, I first tried in CentOS 7, but it's still missing py3libacl.
> > Looks like I'll have to figure out how to install a .whl file,
> > butisn't that going to leave me without py3libacl, which I believe
> > is abinary and not a python script, and I'm not sure pyxattr is
> > going to beincluded. I need to have both ACLs and extended
> > attributes supported.Really, I'd much rather be testing this in
> > CentOS 7, since my CentOS 8VM is proving quite troublesome (can't
> > get DNS to start upconsistently).