Duplicity 0.42 is the latest version in portage, and also the latest version
available on the project homepage [ http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ ]. It seems
that development ground to a halt back in 2002.
There is a bug preventing use of duplicity built using the gentoo ebuild with
sftp (using the scp:// url syntax) where the remote /bin/sh is actually bash.
The bug arises because 'echo -e' doesn't behave as the author intended under
this (fairly common) configuration. This has been patched in various
distributions, including, for example, Debian. Substituting "printf" for "echo
-e" (as seems to have been done for Debian) in src/backends.py:298 resolves
this problem for me, and I have verified this by creating a patch which I'm now
using myself from an overlay.
For obvious disaster-recovery reasons, it would be advantageous if this patch
were included in the official Portage... I'm not sure how to go about this... I
can offer my ebuild - though I make no guarantees that it meets any stylistic
expectations for portage... and, in any case, this seems a trivial change.
I'll have a look at this in few hours when I'm back from work. It should be a
simple sed hack, or a patch which goes to $FILESDIR at worst, so there's no
need to post an ebuild.
