El 2021/03/21 15:01, B Watson escribió:
On 3/21/21, Ricardo J. Barberis <rica...@palmtx.com.ar> wrote:
Hello all!
A few days ago I was asked to update rdiff-backup from 1.2.8 to 2.0.5,
but this two versions are incompatible if used remotely (e.g., via
ssh)
so you have to keep both client and server at the same version.
Since this changes are somewhat invasive, I'd like to ask opinions
before submitting my updates to SBo:
I never used rdiff-backup or even heard of it, so I don't know the
answer to this: Are there going to be enough people who won't/can't
upgrade (e.g. due to corporate policy) that will be stuck with servers
running the old version?
I'm not sure, I've been its maintainer for a very short time only.
Let's see what other people on the list say about this :)
From what I gather at repology.org most of the newer distros (like
Fedora, Arch and even CentOS/EPEL 7/8 and Windows!) are already on 2.x
but others like openSUSE 15.2/15.3, Debian stable and Ubuntu 18.04 are
on 1.x still.
If that's real concern, you could provide a rdiff-backup-legacy-client
build. Just the client of the 1.2.8 version, with a different filename
(so it doesn't conflict with the regular 2.0.5 build).
That way people who use rdiff-backup with multiple remotes will be
able to keep working with all of them, instead of being stuck with
half the remotes running 1.x and half running 2.x.
There is no client/server separation, it's the same "binary", but making
a "-legacy" package would be no problem as both versions can work with
librsync 0.9.7 or 2.3.0 (so I could even postpone librsync's update).
Should I submit them or should I wait for Slackware 15.0 instead?
If you actually do decide to provide a 1.2.8 client-only build,
I don't see a reason not to go ahead and do it.
Thank you so much for your input!
--
Living la vida Linux!
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