Keith Edmunds wrote:
> RH7.3 is four or five years old. New RPMs would need later versions of
> Python and also librsync, which in turn would be likely to need newer
> libc versions (welcome to RedHat Package Management). My suggestion
Well, those are the downsides of binary packages regardless of
distribution. But you overstate the situation in this particular case.
RH7.3 has python2.2 packages available inside the distribution, and
librsync and librsync-devel can be easily brought up to v0.97 from DAG's
repository (http://dag.wieers.com/packages/librsync/). No libc updates
necessary. Once those packages are in place, getting rdiff-backup
v1.0.4 is as simple as downloading the rdiff-backup-1.0.4-1.src.rpm and
executing a --rebuild on it.
Notice I didn't mention v1.1.5. I realize that's what's on the Debian
box, but that's not currently a stable version that I'd recommend using
in production anyway. It also doesn't happen to get along with the
Python version that comes with RedHat 7.3 (it complains about reserved
keywords). I haven't played with the v1.1 development versions enough,
but I assume this means that the new branch requires at least Python 2.3.
So if it's too hard to get Debian to downgrade to 1.0.4, then you can
add one step to the above process to get 1.1.5 on RedHat - download and
install a newer Python. It's not too hard, the Python project provides
source RPMs on their site that you can --rebuild and then install. They
co-exist peacefully with other already-installed versions, and the
librsync RPM --rebuild should pick up what it needs.
> would be to upgrade the server; as it is, it's likely to have many
> security vulnerabilities. If that's not an option, it would be far
If it's an unmaintained 7.3 system, then yes there are security
vulnerabilities. But if he doesn't want to upgrade the entire server,
he can look to http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ to get all the necessary
security updates and ongoing support.
Hope the above info helps... I know it's not as simple as "download
this, run one command and off you go," but I just wanted it to be known
that it's not a lost cause either. :)
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Joshua Penix http://www.binarytribe.com
Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting
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