Re: New command line interface not backward compatible ?

[Reio Remma]

On 28.04.2023 07:51, Eric Zolf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> `rdiff-backup -v5 docs /tmp/bak` works as expected for me. I tried a 
> few variants and it always works. Fedora 38 with rdiff-backup 2.2.4 
> (as packaged).

Uh oh. It seems my mistake was using a relative path for backup destination.

Using an absolute path for destination made it work here as well, even 
though the error implied a missing argument.

rdiff-backup -v5 bin test
vs
rdiff-backup -v5 bin /tmp/bak

Reio


> We also still use the old CLI a lot in our pipeline tests, so there 
> must be another issue on your end.
>
> It looks like rdiff-backup doesn't find its action plugins. 
> rdiff-backup --help should show at the end a list of those:
>
> possible actions:
> {backup,calculate,compare,complete,info,list,regress,remove,restore,server,test,verify} 
>
>
> If not, something is wrong with your installation or (python) setup.
>
> KR, Eric
>
> On 27/04/2023 14:23, Reio Remma wrote:
> > On 27.04.2023 14:59, Patrik Dufresne wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm slowly migrating from v2.0 to v2.2 and I'm getting this error 
> > > message
> > >
> > > rdiff-backup -v 5 /tmp /test
> > > [138] Failed to execute script 'rdiff-backup' due to unhandled 
> > > exception!
> > > WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will disappear,
> > > start using the new one as described with '--new --help'.
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >    File "rdiff-backup", line 8, in <module>
> > >    File "rdiffbackup/run.py", line 37, in main
> > >    File "rdiffbackup/run.py", line 72, in main_run
> > > KeyError: 'backup'
> > >
> > > I know there is a new command line interface since v2.2, but I 
> > > thought it
> > > was backward compatible with v2.0. I'm probably missing something 
> > > obvious.
> > >
> > > Thanks for helping
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > As far as I can tell, the API is compatible, but CLI is new.
> >
> > Oddly I didn't get such an error with the same syntax, but:
> >
> > rdiff-backup: error: argument action: invalid choice: 'bin' (choose 
> > from 'backup', 'calculate', 'compare', 'complete', 'info', 'list', 
> > 'regress', 'remove', 'restore', 'server', 'test', 'verify')
> >
> > Running v2.2.4 here.
> >
> > Good luck!
> > Reio