Bugzilla Bug 205558

[Box Backup] Announcing 0.11 Release Candidate 1
Chris Wilson boxbackup@ fluffy.co.uk
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:03:27 +0000 (GMT)


Hi all,

Nearly two years after the release of Box Backup 0.10, I'm pleased and 
proud to announce the first release candidate for Box Backup 0.11, also 
known as 0.11rc1.

I'd really appreciate it if you'd consider testing the release candidate 
for us. Please read the following Wiki pages before doing so:

* http://www.boxbackup.org/trac/wiki/BetaReleases
* http://www.boxbackup.org/trac/wiki/011 (Upgrading to 0.11)

You can download it from:

* http://www.boxbackup.org/svn/box/packages/boxbackup-0.11rc1.tgz
* http://www.boxbackup.org/svn/box/RELEASE/0.11rc1/ (SVN branch)

If no problems are reported in this release, I hope to make 0.11 final 
available around 14th February.

I've updated the website, www.boxbackup.org, to link to this release, as 
well as the wiki in various places. I hope that was the right thing to do, 
and that I haven't stepped on anybody's toes. Please feel free to pick 
over the changes and tell me if I did anything wrong. I also added 
developer and tester credits for 0.11, I hope I didn't miss anyone, but 
please tell me if I did.

Cheers, Chris.
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@rajiv: I don't use boxbackup any more, so feel free to bump and/or take over
maintenance of boxbackup.

Created an attachment (id=166050) [details]
boxbackup 0.11 rc2 ebuild

Created an attachment (id=166052) [details]
boxbackup 0.11 rc2 gentoo patch

The boxbackup team is now up to 0.11rc2. They say: "It would be great to have
0.11rc2 in Gentoo, as 0.10 is so outdated."

I took a shot at tweaking the ebuild to work for 0.11rc2, mostly a matter of
handling an extra version component, and regenerating the patch that moves the
default configuration directory to /etc/boxbackup and the install directory to
/usr/sbin. The prior gcc41-noll patch doesn't appear to be necessary, upstream
has incorporated the change.

I'm no expert at this stuff and would be very happy to have someone who is look
over these changes.

Created an attachment (id=166054) [details]
boxbackup 0.11 rc2 gentoo patch

Patch was missing one clause, which I have fixed

Created an attachment (id=166878) [details]
166050: boxbackup 0.11 rc2 ebuild

Added a warning about 0.11's impact on existing NotifyScripts, since emails
saying "BACKUP PROBLEM" can be disturbing. Changed HOMEPAGE to point to the new
boxbackup.org home page.

I have updated my boxbackup-0.10 to the boxbackup-0.11rc2(2008-10-01 00:50)
with patch (2008-09-22 03:00) with the following problems:

1. I have missed /etc/init.d/bbstored and /etc/init.d/bbackupd scripts. They
were after fresh install (without configuring) from 0.10 ebuild, but are
missing after update.

2. Box backup got compiled to use /etc/box, not the /etc/boxbackup directory.
Therefore i need to use -c switch to run programs, or simply to use symlink
from /etc/boxbackup to /etc/box

Is there anyone here that would like to become a proxy maintainer?

(In reply to comment #7)
> 1. I have missed /etc/init.d/bbstored and /etc/init.d/bbackupd scripts.

I think you need to copy these from
/usr/portage/app-backup/boxbackup/files/bb*.rc to
/usr/local/portage/app-backup/boxbackup/files . I don't understand how this
really works in Portage, I guess.

> 2. Box backup got compiled to use /etc/box, not the /etc/boxbackup directory.

Sounds like the patch didn't get properly applied, either. Do you have a log of
the emerge output?

Thanks

Hi there

I can't install boxbackup-0.11_rc2.

 * Failed Running aclocal !
 *                         
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 *
 * /var/tmp/portage/app-backup/boxbackup-0.11_rc2/temp/aclocal-8523.out

***** aclocal *****
***** aclocal -I infrastructure/m4

configure.ac:286: error: AC_SUBST: `bindir_expanded sysconfdir_expanded
localstatedir_expanded' is not a valid shell variable name
configure.ac:286: the top level
autom4te-2.63: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1

Any idea?

Created an attachment (id=167856) [details]
extended the patch, patches configure.ac

Ok, i could solve it myself.
It's my first patch so can you have a lookt at it?
I could compile now boxbackup-0.11_rc2. :)

Did someone test compiling boxbackup-0.11_rc2 with gcc-4.3.2?
It throws several errors for me - not usable ATM.

(In reply to comment #12)
> Did someone test compiling boxbackup-0.11_rc2 with gcc-4.3.2?
> It throws several errors for me - not usable ATM.

Upstream has just checked in changes to allow compiling under gcc 4.3.2, but
they're still only in svn. Perhaps the next release candidate will pick them
up.

Created an attachment (id=168918) [details]
boxbackup 0.11 rc2 gentoo patch

(In reply to comment #7)
> 2. Box backup got compiled to use /etc/box, not the /etc/boxbackup directory.

The patch was wrong. (I had modified .h files that were getting generated from
.h.in files, so of course my changes got overwritten.) I have fixed it, and was
more thorough in my testing this time.

I also included Martin's change from comment #11.

Created an attachment (id=168920) [details]
boxbackup 0.11 rc2 ebuild

0.11 has a bunch of new documentation, added it to the ebuild so it goes in
/usr/share/doc.

How do you use the ebuilds attached to this bug report.  Sorry for the newbie
question, but I just can't seem to figure it out.

*** Bug 231760 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

you can use the posted ebuild by putting the ebuild into
/usr/portage/app-backup/boxbackup
and the patch file into 
/usr/portage/app-backup/boxbackup/files
(i think)