Re: EPEL packages for CentOS6/7

[Derek Atkins]

Frank Crawford <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, 2020-05-10 at 09:40 +0100, John Harman wrote:
>> I see that the Rdiff-backup 2.0 update has pushed out to CentOS 7 servers
>> via EPEL overnight (on a Saturday night - great timing!).
>> 
>> In my case this has broken several backups because the CentOS 6 backup
>> master pulls from the child servers which are mostly CentOS 7.
>> 
>> Browsing the EPEL repositories I can't see any sign of RPM packages to
>> allow me to install Rdiff-backup 2.x on CentOS 6.
>
> No, unfortunately it is not possible to make an EPEL version of rdiff-
> backup 2.x, as python3 is not available directly within CentOS 6,
> however see below.

However it WOULD be possible to have an EPEL version of 1.2.8 avaiable
on EL7/8 that would co-exist with diff-backup 2!  :-)

-derek
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