Re: New command line interface not backward compatible ?

On 28.04.2023 07:51, Eric Zolf wrote:
> 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).

Uh oh. It seems my mistake was using a relative path for backup destination.

Using an absolute path for destination made it work here as well, even 
though the error implied a missing argument.

rdiff-backup -v5 bin test
vs
rdiff-backup -v5 bin /tmp/bak

Reio


>
> 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