[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Error: Too Many values to unpack

[micah]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:52:01 -0400, Andrew Ferguson wrote:

> micah wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:58:45 -0400, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
>> 
>>> Marcelo Diotto wrote:
>>>> But i always get this error:
>>>> 
>>>> Exception 'too many values to unpack' raised of class
>>> 
>>> You are not using the same version of rdiff-backup on both sides.
>>> 
>>> An important change was made to the network protocol in 1.1.12 to fix
>>> a long-standing bug. If you use 1.1.12 on both sides, then you will
>>> not have this problem.
>> 
>> Doesn't this violate the attempt to maintain compatibility with minor
>> versions as described on the rdiff-backup website? Its my understanding
>> that compatibility between minor versions (so that 1.1.6 and 1.1.9 are
>> compatible, as well as 1.1.5 and 1.1.12 are compatible) was the
>> intention?
> 
> Yes, it does. But I decided that:
> 
> - the protocol bugfix was more valuable - it's a development version
> - and lastly, the latest development version is always more stable than
> older ones, thus if you are using 1.1.x, you should always have the
> latest one

The one downside that maybe wasn't accounted for is that this breaks 
rdiff-backup between Debian stable and both Debian testing and unstable. 
This means that to backup a Debian stable system with rdiff-backup, one 
needs to backup to another stable system, whereas before this wasn't 
necessary. 

Seeing as Debian Stable is likely to be around for at least another year, 
this is likely going to be an issue that comes up frequently until a new 
version of Debian is released. 

One solution is a backport.org version of the newer 1.1.12 version, but 
this is not a great solution either.

micah