The "flexbackup-1.2.1-secure-tempfile.patch" introduced in flexbackup-1.2.1-r2
to increase the uniqueness of the temporary files inadvertently broke the
remote buffer test used when flexbackup backs up remote hosts.
Although the patch author properly manages temporary files on the remote host
during the actual backup, during the remote buffer test (in the
test_bufferprog() function) the temporary directory is not created on the
remote machine.
There's also a weakness in the code that parses the messages retrieved from the
remote host: flexbackup is actually not detecting the failure and is reporting
success even though the remote buffer tests aren't actually run.
I've included a patch that adds the code to properly create the temporary
directory on the remote host (and delete it when the test is done) and improves
the parsing of the results so that failures like this aren't missed.
The patch was generated against flexbackup-1.2.1-r3 and is additive to all the
patches that that ebuild currently applies.
- John
