Re: [Duplicity-talk] 0.4.3 RC10 Ready for Test

[Kenneth Loafman]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> dAniel hAhler wrote:
>> On 7/14/07, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> problems with the
>>> new FTP backend, and those were caused by problems with argument
>>> semantics when using both the commandline and the -f option.  By going
>>> to the commandline only we avoid the issues found in the different
>>> versions of the ncftp client 3.x software.
>> I guess you are referring to
>> https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?20474 ("ncftpput 3.2.0 -
>> segfault when uploading file").
>> Are there other problems with using the -f option?
>>
>> In this case, I'd say to leave the hostname out of the config file
>> instead of having the user/password on the command line.
> 
> I tried that and a previous 3.x version had problems with that.

A little terse on that answer... I initially tested with the 3.1.9
version.  The 3.2.0 version does not like having host in both the
command line and the config file.  The 3.1.8 version does not like
having a config file with a missing host entry, even if specified on the
command line.  Like I said, the semantics were going to be driving a bit
of messy adaptation.

On a separate note, the new RC11 is coming out tomorrow.  It will use
pexpect to drive the scp backend and allow password entry from the
console.  When this has proven out, we can look at using pexpect to
drive the ftp backend and take the password off the command line.  Will
just have to see if pexpect is as stable as my testing seems to show.

...Ken

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