On 12/21/25 9:22 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote:
Hi there,
On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, jbk wrote:
With BackkupPC-XS-0.63rc1 installed building
BackupPC-4.4.1rc1
stalls at this point in the build process:
...
+ cd BackupPC-4.4.1rc1
+ /usr/bin/perl configure.pl --batch
--backuppc-user=backuppc ...
...
... --no-set-perms --uid-ignore
You need to run makeDist first to create a tarball
release that
includes an updated configure.pl.? After you unpack the
tarball,
run configure.pl from there.
...
So the answer is there but I'm not sure how to fix.
The Perl script makeDist has some documentation at the top
which might
help you. ...........
..................
I believe you're trying to create a Red Hat RPM. It's
decades since I
used a Red Hat system so I'm not sure what's necessary to
create a RPM
package from the BackupPC source. I'd like to refresh
myself but just
now I can't spare the time as I'm up to my ears in
rsync-bpc. I'll be
happy to make any changes in the BackupPC repository in
Github if it's
found to be necessary to support the creation of a
particular package.
Richard (see the thread 'BackupPC-XS 0.63 RC1 test
failure') is the
person who will probably know best. ........
Ged,
Correct, I am trying to build within the distro packaging
system.
I did get further on the BackupPC-4.4.1rc1 build but I am
now choking on a new dependency "perl-SCGI" that does not
exist in the RH and derivatives src.rpm system.
I've copied Richard on this so If he progresses to this
point, and I don't expect him to in the near future, he
might share some advancement with me.
I did find a source rpm from an obscure distro "alt linux"
but it's spec is incompatible with RH.
I do appreciate your efforts to advance the code.
I am curious as to why perl-SCGI is being introduced into
the code base now as it was avoided in prior releases of
BackupPC. It hasn't been advanced since 2006. I'm assuming
some of the SCGI functionality was written into the base
BackupPC code and is now being separated.
--
Jim KR
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