[rdiff-backup-users] 1.2.6: warning about broken support for extended attributes

[Andreas Olsson]

When I run rdiff-backup on my Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) I receive the this warning:

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address@hidden:~$ rdiff-backup a/ b/
Warning: Your version of pyxattr (unknown) has broken support for extended
attributes on symlinks. If you choose not to upgrade to a more recent version,
you may see many warning messages from listattr().

Warning: Your version of pyxattr (unknown) has broken support for extended
attributes on symlinks. If you choose not to upgrade to a more recent version,
you may see many warning messages from listattr().

address@hidden:~$
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Seems quite strange considering Hardy provides an updated 0.2.2 of pyxattr. If 
I'm not mistaken completely that's a version where the support for extended
attributes on symlinks is fixed

http://git.k1024.org/pyxattr.git/?a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=HEAD

Of course, the warning refers to an "unknown" version, so perhaps I guess the 
problem might be related to the detection of pyxattr version.

Also, it seems like a quite load warning, especially when ran on source which 
doesn't even contains any symlinks.

This warning is not present in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid). That versions of Ubuntu 
includes pyxattr 0.4.0.

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

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