Re: Version Woes

Robert Nichols <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/17/20 8:46 PM, Frank Crawford wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 08:27 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
>> On 4/17/20 12:52 AM,
>> [email protected]
>>   wrote:
>>
>> That's if you _can_ upgrade on both sides. I have CentOS 6 clients,
>> and
>> their Python 3 version is 3.4.10, which is too old for rdiff-backup
>> 2.0. The CentOS 8 server has to support both 1.2 and 2.0 clients,
>> regardless of what needs to be done to accomplish that.
> 
> Do you actually have a version of 1.2 that runs on CentOS 8?

It just takes a couple of symlinks to make rdiff-backup-1.2.8-6 work
with the python2-2.7.16.12 that is available for CentOS 8.
    ln -s python2.7 /usr/lib64/python-2.6
    ln -s libpython2.7.so.1.0 /usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0
The /usr/bin/rdiff-backup script needs to invoke /usr/bin/python2
explicitly.

I haven't tested it fully, but the basic operations seem to work.
I could probably rebuild rdiff-backup-1.2.8-6 to use python2.7
directly.

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