Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity 0.6.20 Released

[edgar . soldin]

ups,

1.4 doesn't support a syntax like that. try to manually patch like here
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ed.so/duplicity/24syntaxfix/revision/890

ken: sorry, you will find a patch branch online.

..ede

On 29.10.2012 09:14, Timo Schoeler wrote:
> On 10/28/2012 02:08 PM, thus Kenneth Loafman spake:
>> Hi,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> thanks a lot for the new release!
> 
> However, having built duplicity on RHEL 5 machines, I get:
> 
> address@hidden ~]# duplicity
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 46, in ?
>     from duplicity import commandline
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/commandline.py", line 188
>     return encoding if encoding else 'utf-8'
>                      ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> Python installed is python-2.4.3-46.el5_8.2
> 
> Best,
> 
> Timo
> 
>> A lot of bug fixes and enhancements by the duplicity team.  My thanks go
>> out to them for keeping the project going.
>>
>> I'm hoping some of the upstream maintainers read this announcement as well.
>>   There's a very pointed note at the top of the CHANGELOG file you need to
>> read, but the bottom line is, QUIT CHANGING THE RELEASE!  We don't do
>> anything without good reason and we're all tired of chasing bugs reported
>> to us because you refuse to package duplicity the way we intended.  From
>> now on, those bugs will be reassigned to the package maintainers that
>> modified the code.  Please cease the changes.
>>
>> As usual, you can download from https://launchpad.net/duplicity/+download
>>
>> ...Thanks,
>> ...Ken
>>
>>
>> New in v0.6.20 (2012/10/28)
>> ---------------------------
>> Enhancements:
>> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/ssh.manpage
>>    - added gdocs and rsync REQUIREMENTS
>>    - added cloudfiles documentation
>> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/gpginterface
>>    - refactor GnuPGInterface to gpginterface.py
>>      reasoning can be found in README
>> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/duplicity.helpfix
>>    - fix rare 'TypeError: encode() argument 1 must be string, not None'
>>    -
>> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/duplicity-talk/2012-09/msg00016.html
>> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/duplicity.tmpspacefix
>>    - use tempfile.TemporaryFile() so unused temp files are deleted
>> automagically
>>    - propbably solve bug 'Out of space error while restoring a file'
>>    - https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1005901
>>    - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/duplicity-talk/2012-09/msg00000.html
>> * Merged in lp:~mterry/duplicity/utf8-po
>>    - For some crazy reason, the gettext module defaults to giving you
>> strings in
>>      whatever charset the po file happened to define.  Which means you never
>> know
>>      what string of bytes you're going to get.  This module makes sure we
>> always
>>      get utf-8 byte strings.  So we're at least predictable and reduces one
>>      source of UnicodeDecodeErrors (like in bug 989496)
>> * Merged in lp:~mterry/duplicity/1031277
>>    - ssh: actually delete all the requested files, not just the first one
>> * Merged in lp:~mterry/duplicity/leftover-sigtar
>>    - So currently, duplicity does not delete signature files when doing a
>>      remove-all-but-n operation. Seems wrong, since those signature files
>> are now
>>      useless and take up space.
>>    - This branch does several things:
>>      1) Make remove-all-but-n operate on chains. In practice it did before,
>> since
>>         the sets it operated on always came from complete chains (i.e. it
>> never
>>         used only some of the sets from a chain)
>>      2) Add a new method to get all signature chains before a certain time.
>>      3) Use this new method to also delete signature chains during
>> remove-all-but
>>         operations.
>>    - And it cleans up the cleanuptest.py file:
>>      1) Removes crufty, unused code
>>      2) Disallows changing the destination folder for the test, which no one
>>         would ever want to do and isn't really supported anyway
>>      3) Add some additional checks to the existing test
>>      4) Adds two new methods to test remove-all-but-n and
>>         remove-all-inc-of-but-n-full
>> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/duplicity.manpage
>>    - disabled hyphenation and block justification for better readablility of
>>      command line examples.
>>    - reformatted REQUIREMENTS section for hopefully better online rendering
>>    - minor clarifications
>> * Merged in lp:~gregretkowski/duplicity/cf-retry-delete
>>    - This will retry cloudfile delete commands. With large numbers of archive
>>      files over mediocre links transient network errors will occasionally
>> cause
>>      deletes to fail and these should be retried.
>> * Merged in lp:~mterry/duplicity/ropath.index
>>    - This branch does two main things:
>>      1) Skips base dir entries when compiling the list of deleted delta
>> iters.
>>         (this gracefully recovers from the sort of situations that lead to
>> bug
>>         929067). I'm reasonably confident this is an uninvasive change, but
>>         please confirm.
>>      2) Overwrites the sigtar file on backup-restart. This is because AFAICT,
>>         duplicity will rewrite the entire sigtar each restart. But we were
>>         opening the sigtar file as "ab", so we'd just dump the contents on
>> top
>>         of the previous contents. Which was causing some confusion in bug
>> 929067.
>>         If I'm wrong that we don't always rewrite the entire sigtar each
>> time,
>>         this needs some rethink. Please also confirm that.
>>    - In addition, I added two tests for the above two changes and make some
>>      improvements elsewhere in the restarttest.py file while I was at it.
>> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/ssh-pexpect-msgbug
>>    - Fixes 'UnboundLocalError: local variable 'msg' referenced before
>> assignment'
>>      in _ssh_pexpect.py
>> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/gpg.tmp
>>    - place gpg.py tempfiles in duplicity's tmp subfolder which is cleaned
>>      whatever happens
>> * Merged in lp:~mterry/duplicity/u1-402
>>    - Switch the code we check for out-of-space in u1backend.
>> * Applied patch for #1066625 ubuntu one backend
>>    - add delay between retries
>>
>> Bugs closed in this release:
>> 519948     remove-* commands don't remove signature-files
>> 907077     assert len(chain_list) == 2 AssertionError
>> 929067     crash during restore: "assert ropath.index == (), ropath.index"
>> 995851     doc improvement for --encrypt-key, --sign-key
>> 997691     Ubuntu One backend should check for 402 error for out-of-space
>> 1031269    remove-all-but-n-full broken
>> 1039001    --exclude-if-present and --exclude-other-filesystems causes crash
>>             with inaccessible other fs
>> 1066625    ubuntu one backend does not work without gnome/dbus/x11 session
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