[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup, broken symlinks and python 2.4?

[Andreas Olsson]

When I upgraded my servers running Ubuntu 6.06 and Ubuntu 4.0 to use 
rdiff-backup 1.2.2 I've started getting some strange warnings regarding broken 
symlinks. This is a new behavior not seen using previous version of 
rdiff-backup.

These are the warnings I get while trying to backup broken symlinks

address@hidden:~/temp$ rdiff-backup from/ to/
Warning: listattr('from/linkdir/a'): [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Warning: listattr('to/linkdir/rdiff-backup.tmp.2'): [Errno 2] No such file or 
directory
Warning: listattr('from/linkdir/c'): [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Warning: listattr('to/linkdir/rdiff-backup.tmp.4'): [Errno 2] No such file or 
directory
address@hidden:~/temp$ rm -rf to/*
address@hidden:~/temp$ rdiff-backup --exclude-symbolic-links from/ to/
Warning: listattr('from/linkdir/a'): [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Warning: listattr('from/linkdir/c'): [Errno 2] No such file or directory

This by the way, is the content of my from folder

address@hidden:~/temp$ ls -l from/filedir/
total 4
-rw-rw---- 1 andreas andreas 2 2008-11-09 02:36 b
address@hidden:~/temp$ ls -l from/linkdir/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 andreas andreas 12 2008-11-09 02:36 a -> ../filedir/a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 andreas andreas 12 2008-11-09 02:37 b -> ../filedir/b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 andreas andreas 12 2008-11-09 02:37 c -> ../filedir/c 

These warnings only shows up if python-pyxattr is installed

Ubuntu 6.06 uses Python version 2.4.3
Debian 4.0 uses Python version 2.4.4

I haven't been able to reproduce these errors on a system using Python 2.5.x

(No, I'm not actually sure this is related to the involed version of Python.)

-- 
Andreas Olsson
http://www.andreasolsson.se/

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