On 12/26/25 8:01 AM, jbk wrote:
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.
If you look at the GIT history you will see that perl-SGCI has been in
the code since at least May 16, 2016 so it is not new. It is used by
the module "backuppc/bin /BackupPC_Admin_SCGI"
In Mageia, SUSE and Fedora perl-SCGI is packaged as perl-CGI-Simple. As
RedHat is now behind a paywall I do not have access to their list of
packages.but it may have the package perl-CGI-Simple.
In Debian it is packaged as libcgi-simple-perl.
Just because some code is old does not mean it is of no value.
R.H.
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