Re: New command line interface not backward compatible ?

[Derek Atkins]

... And using a relative path with the name "test"..  Which is a command.

-derek
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On April 28, 2023 04:14:43 Reio Remma <reio@mrstuudio.ee> wrote:

> 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