Re: Version weirdness

Alvin Starr via Any discussion of rdiff-backup <[email protected]> Tue, 3 Jan 2023 13:53:22 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
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On 2023-01-03 13:49, Robert Nichols wrote:
> 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.
>
Well if rdiff-backup --version responds with a result different from 
/usr/bin/rdiff-backup --version then there is another rdiff-backup 
installed somewhere.
Check your bash aliases.

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