Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Version difference problem

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jul 24, 2008, at 1:39 AM, feffer wrote:
> I've been backing up my linux workstation with rdiff-backup. The  
> backup server runs debian stable (it is a Linksys NSLU), but the  
> workstation runs debian sid. As a result there is a version  
> difference for rdiff on the two systems. On test backups, rdiff  
> always complains about this, but runs anyway. To keep the version  
> difference close, I "hold" rdiff on the ws. Because of the "hold"  
> rdiff got out of sync with some dependancies, I think, and dpkg  
> showed it only "half" installed. I got some errors in the backup.log  
> as well. So I took the "hold" off and let it upgrade to 1.1.17.  
> However, on the server rdiff was ver. 1.1.14. I guess this  
> difference was too much and the backups failed.
>
> To fix it, I went back and reinstalled testing ver 1.1.16 on the ws,  
> and now it's working again. This seems like a problem that will keep  
> coming back though. How can I work around this? Any ideas?  :(


Sometimes during this development cycle bug fixes required that  
incompatible changes be made. The result has been that the most recent  
development version has almost always been more stable than its  
predecessors. I do not know what rationale the Debian project uses to  
let so many different versions exist as the "latest" in the various  
package universes. It seems strange to me.

At any rate, a new stable branch, 1.2.0 will be released in a few days  
so that it will be in time for the freeze for Debian's next stable  
distribution. I am trying to accommodate them.


If you still have it, can you send in the error message that you got  
when trying to use 1.1.14 and 1.1.17 ? I'm curious.


Andrew