Re: version 2.2 --remove-older-than behavior changed

[ewl+rdiffbackup]

Did you check the documentation? Tl;Dr: it is documented!

KR, Eric

On 16 February 2023 07:40:32 GMT+01:00, tbsky <tbsky@annsky.com> wrote:
>Hi:
>   I upgrade our rdiff-backup version from 2.0.5 to 2.2 (the package comes 
> with RHEL 9.1). if I issue command like below:
>
>version 2.2:
>#>rdiff-backup remove increments --older-than 10B my-backup
>NOTE: No increments older than Wed Feb  1 04:15:41 2023 found, exiting.
>WARNING: No increment is older than '10B'
>WARNING: Action remove emitted warnings, see previous messages for details
>#>echo $?
>2
>
>version 2.0.5：
>#>rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 10B my-backup
>No increments older than Fri Jan  6 01:00:06 2023 found, exiting.
>#>echo $?
>0
>
>old version return ok when there is nothing to remove. but 2.2 return error. 
>is this a regression or changed behavior?
>if this is a new behavior, I hope the return code "2" will keep 
>fixed/documented so the backup script can handle the situation.
>
>thanks a lot for confirm.
>
>Regards,
>tbsky
>