Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backup error due to different versions of rdiff-backup

[dean gaudet]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, sim wrote:

> Dean's package seems to depend on a newer libc6, this is what I got on
> a sarge machine:
> 
> puddle:~# dpkg -i rdiff-backup_1.0.4-0.cvs20060120_i386.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package rdiff-backup.
> (Reading database ... 25685 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking rdiff-backup (from rdiff-backup_1.0.4-0.cvs20060120_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rdiff-backup:
>   rdiff-backup depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1); however:
>   Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.2.ds1-22.
> dpkg: error processing rdiff-backup (--install):
>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   rdiff-backup
> 
> 
> Dean this package was created on a machine running etch right?

i run unstable... is it called etch now?  i never pay attention and just 
always run unstable :)


> I used apt-get source to download the rdiff-backup source on to a machine
> running etch, then I copied the source tree to a sarge machine and
> built it there.
> 
> Now rdiff-backup backs up from etch to sarge without any warnings.
> 
> You need to have librsync-dev and the debian packaging tools installed.

one more useful command to know:  apt-get build-dep rdiff-backup

i'm pretty sure that would have hauled in everything you needed to build 
it... if not then the source package has a bug :)

-dean