Re: Version weirdness

Robert Nichols <[email protected]> Tue, 3 Jan 2023 12:49:06 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
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On 1/3/23 11:44 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> I have one rdiff-backup installation for which "rdiff-backup --version" reports "rdiff-backup 2.2.0" and another which reports "rdiff-backup 2.2.2". The problem:
> 
>      1. On both systems, "rpm -q rdiff-backup" reports "rdiff-backup-2.2.2-1.el8.x86_64".
>      2. On both systems, "rpm -V rdiff-backup" does not detect any changes in the installed files.
>      3. The md5sum checksums for all of the files listed by "rpm -ql rdiff-backup" match between systems.
>      4. Both systems are running Rocky Linux 8.7, fully updated.
> 
> The system reporting "2.2.2" is a virtual machine. The one reporting "2.2.0" is a new installation running on the bare iron.
> 
> If you have any idea about what might be happening, I'd like to hear about it. If you have no clue, welcome to the club.

Ahh yes, I neglected to mention that on both systems "which rdiff-backup" reports "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", and explicitly running "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup --version" reports the same as what I posted above.

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