Re: [Duplicity-talk] Retry on exceptions / different patches/attempts

[Charles Duffy]

Neal Clark wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Regarding the SCP patch--I don't know anything about python. I have 
> the following three files on my system:
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/backends.pyc
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/backends.pyo
>
> Just to be clear, do I have to apply this patch on the source and 
> reinstall, or can I just apply it on 'backends.py'?
The pyc and pyo are optimized versions of the .py (preparsed and 
otherwise semi-compiled). They won't be used if the .py is newer, so you 
can apply in-place safely without causing anything other than a slight 
slowdown at module load time.