Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup & python 2.3

[Joe Cooper]

I'm no rdiff developer, but I can tell you why this doesn't work.

If you do an rpm -ql on that package, I bet you'll see that it's python 
libraries are being installed in /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/. 
This obviously can't work for python 2.3 which will look for its modules 
in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/.  This is a feature, not a bug, in 
python...it makes it possible, and even trivial, to run multiple 
versions of python on the same system without compatibility issues.

You'll probably need to rebuild from SRPM, or install from source tarball.

Johan wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using Mandrake 9.2
> Rdiff refuses to install because of python2.3.
> I installed it with nodeps.
> It seems to be there but when run the following...
> address@hidden root]# rdiff-backup
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 21, in ?
>     import rdiff_backup.Main
> ImportError: No module named rdiff_backup.Main
> Kindly is there a way to run it on mdk9.2 and python2.3.
>
> I installed it on MDK 9.1 and it runs without complaint...but mdk9.2 is 
> prefered.
> librsync1-0.9.6-1mdk.i586.rpm was installed on both OS'ses.
> I would like to try out this instead of rsync.
> Some pointers please.
> Thanks


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