We have pushed into testing and intend to eventually release a new version of rdiff-backup which has a significant incompatibly with the current distributed version, when used in client-server mode.
The current version is v1.2.8 and written in Python2, while the new version is v2.0.0 and written in Python3, and the language change breaks client-server mode, due to incompatible data representations between Python2 and Python3. In all other respects the two versions are compatible including the ability to read and write existing backup repositories. It should be noted that the v1.2.8 was released over 11 years ago and while a small number of bug fixes have been added by the community, there has been no co-ordinated work for a number of years, and no further development will occur on the Python2 version. All future work, enhancements and bugfixes, including security bugfixes, will be to the Python3 version. If it is necessary to stay with the Python2 version, it is recommended that you exclude rdiff-backup from future updates. Also, if you are testing the Python3 update in EPEL-7 (and EPEL-8) some of the dependencies (python3-pyxattr and py3libacl) are also in the testing repositories. If you have any questions about the update, please contact me. Frank Crawford FAS: frankcrawford
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