Re: Version Woes

[Robert Nichols]

On 4/17/20 8:46 PM, Frank Crawford wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 08:27 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> > On 4/17/20 12:52 AM,
> > address@hidden
> >   wrote:
> >
> > That's if you _can_ upgrade on both sides. I have CentOS 6 clients,
> > and
> > their Python 3 version is 3.4.10, which is too old for rdiff-backup
> > 2.0. The CentOS 8 server has to support both 1.2 and 2.0 clients,
> > regardless of what needs to be done to accomplish that.
>
> Do you actually have a version of 1.2 that runs on CentOS 8?

It just takes a couple of symlinks to make rdiff-backup-1.2.8-6 work
with the python2-2.7.16.12 that is available for CentOS 8.
   ln -s python2.7 /usr/lib64/python-2.6
   ln -s libpython2.7.so.1.0 /usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0
The /usr/bin/rdiff-backup script needs to invoke /usr/bin/python2
explicitly.

I haven't tested it fully, but the basic operations seem to work.
I could probably rebuild rdiff-backup-1.2.8-6 to use python2.7
directly.

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