Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup, broken symlinks and python 2.4?

[Andreas Olsson]

On Sunday 09 November 2008 04:17:45 Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Andreas Olsson wrote:
> > When I upgraded my servers running Ubuntu 6.06 and Ubuntu 4.0 to use
s/Ubuntu 4.0/Debian 4.0/

> Try updating your version of python-pyxattr. What *should* be
> happening is that the extended attribute calls are working on the
> symlink, and not the target of the symlink. Since the warning makes
> sense if the later is happening (target of the symlink), I suspect a
> bug in python-pyxattr or lower. (Or maybe older Ubuntu don't even
> support xattr on symlink).

You are right, this is due to a bug in older versions of pyxattr. It seems to 
have been fixed in pyxattr 0.2.2. Unfortunately Ubuntu 6.06 and Debian 4.0 
supplies slightly older versions; 0.2 and 0.2.1, that is.

When I installed the most recent version of pyxattr on an Ubuntu 6.06 system 
it had no trouble properly handling extended attributes on symlinks.

-- 
Andreas Olsson
http://www.andreasolsson.se/

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