On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM jbk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/17/25 10:18 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2025, jbk wrote: > > > >> ... > >> Question: There is a patch by cbarrett in backuppc-4.4.0-20 > >> that references issue #466 and is listed as closed around > >> July 2022. This issue does not appear in the change log for > >> backuppc-4.4.1rc1. Is this just an omission or does it still > >> need to be applied as a patch for this release candidate. > >> ... > > > > The fix is applied in 4.4.1rc1. It's in three places in > > the code, one > > in .../configure.pl and two in > > .../lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm. > > > > For things like this I recommend checking out the source > > from Github > > and then using 'gitk'. I find it invaluable. It's much > > faster and, > > at least here, much more reliable than trying to use Github. > > > > If you do try gitk you'll see that until around October of > > this year > > the branch history was kindof a jumble. Hopefully it's > > under control > > now. I *think* I've caught up with all the historic fixes > > (including > > one which first appeared in September 2012 but was then > > lost in April > > 2013 - I reapplied it 13 years later). I'm very glad > > you're looking > > at these things. :) > > > I'm building the source for BackupPC-XS-0.63 in mock and I > get this error: > > ......................................................................................... > gcc -c -I. -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -flto=auto > -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches > -pipe -Wall -Wno-complain-wrong-lang -Werror=format-security > -Wp,-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 > -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS > -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 > -fstack-protector-strong > -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 > -march=x86-64-v3 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables > -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -mtls-dialect=gnu2 > -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include > -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g > -DVERSION=\"0.63\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.63\" -fPIC > "-I/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE" BackupPC_XS.c > In file included from BackupPC_XS.xs:27: > ./backuppc.h:25:10: fatal error: zlib.h: No such file or > directory > 25 | #include <zlib.h> /* 2025.11.12: Use the > system-provided zlib. == GWH == */ > | ^~~~~~~~ >
Stay tuned... I'm working on packages in my COPR. To get it to build you need to add: BuildRequires: zlib-ng-compat-devel to the spec file but now the tests are failing. Thanks, Richard
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