Re: EPEL packages for CentOS6/7
Derek Atkins <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general |
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Frank Crawford <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, 2020-05-10 at 09:40 +0100, John Harman wrote: >> I see that the Rdiff-backup 2.0 update has pushed out to CentOS 7 servers >> via EPEL overnight (on a Saturday night - great timing!). >> >> In my case this has broken several backups because the CentOS 6 backup >> master pulls from the child servers which are mostly CentOS 7. >> >> Browsing the EPEL repositories I can't see any sign of RPM packages to >> allow me to install Rdiff-backup 2.x on CentOS 6. > > No, unfortunately it is not possible to make an EPEL version of rdiff- > backup 2.x, as python3 is not available directly within CentOS 6, > however see below. However it WOULD be possible to have an EPEL version of 1.2.8 avaiable on EL7/8 that would co-exist with diff-backup 2! :-) -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 [email protected] www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant