Re: New command line interface not backward compatible ?

... And using a relative path with the name "test"..  Which is a command.

-derek
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On April 28, 2023 04:14:43 Reio Remma <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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