On 12/27/25 12:25 AM, Robert Howard wrote:
On 12/26/25 3:02 PM, Robert Howard wrote:
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.
Oops one error I made is regarding packages. I misread
something and perl-SGCI is not in the Mageia, SUSE and
Fedora packages I mentioned although it is in the Debian
package libscgi-perl and that would require a bit of
conversion to make it into a suitable RPM. My apologies.
Before building you could install the SCGI module from
CPAN with
'cpanm --verbose SCGI' that is assuming you have cpanm
installed.
By the way the GIT history I mentioned is correct.
R.H
OK, this is useful information as it confirms that
RH/EPEL/Fedora are doing something to satisfy the perl-SCGI
requirement within their build scripts since I can rebuild
4.4.0 from Fedora src.rpm's w/o issue.
--
Jim KR
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