Re: New command line interface not backward compatible ?

Hi,

`rdiff-backup -v5 docs /tmp/bak` works as expected for me. I tried a few 
variants and it always works. Fedora 38 with rdiff-backup 2.2.4 (as 
packaged).

We also still use the old CLI a lot in our pipeline tests, so there must 
be another issue on your end.

It looks like rdiff-backup doesn't find its action plugins. rdiff-backup 
--help should show at the end a list of those:

possible actions:
{backup,calculate,compare,complete,info,list,regress,remove,restore,server,test,verify}

If not, something is wrong with your installation or (python) setup.

KR, Eric

On 27/04/2023 14:23, Reio Remma wrote:
> On 27.04.2023 14:59, Patrik Dufresne wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm slowly migrating from v2.0 to v2.2 and I'm getting this error message
>>
>> rdiff-backup -v 5 /tmp /test
>> [138] Failed to execute script 'rdiff-backup' due to unhandled exception!
>> WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will disappear,
>> start using the new one as described with '--new --help'.
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "rdiff-backup", line 8, in <module>
>>    File "rdiffbackup/run.py", line 37, in main
>>    File "rdiffbackup/run.py", line 72, in main_run
>> KeyError: 'backup'
>>
>> I know there is a new command line interface since v2.2, but I thought it
>> was backward compatible with v2.0. I'm probably missing something 
>> obvious.
>>
>> Thanks for helping
> 
> Hello!
> 
> As far as I can tell, the API is compatible, but CLI is new.
> 
> Oddly I didn't get such an error with the same syntax, but:
> 
> rdiff-backup: error: argument action: invalid choice: 'bin' (choose from 
> 'backup', 'calculate', 'compare', 'complete', 'info', 'list', 'regress', 
> 'remove', 'restore', 'server', 'test', 'verify')
> 
> Running v2.2.4 here.
> 
> Good luck!
> Reio
>