Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Strange restore problem

[David Kempe]

>>>>>> Keith Edmunds <address@hidden>
>
>> I don't understand the (very long) path to connection.py:
>>
>>
>> Can anyone shed any light on this?
>
> Here's a theory:  John Goerzen probably built the binary deb that you
> are using, and that was the path to connection.py on his machine, when
> it was first compiled to connection.pyo, which is what python executes
> from.
>
>
> --
> Ben Escoto

from what I have seen, if you delete the .pyo files, they get rebuilt next
time rdiff-backup is run. Then they have the correct path to your local
.py files. Perhaps the debian package should have no .pyo files, then
everyone would have the correct (shorter) path in their tracebacks :)

dave