Re: cross-platform backup tool First beta v2.1.2b1 release towards v2.2.0

[EricZolf]

Hi Robert,
you actually don't really need to:

1. you can test the beta against itself on localhost (if you have an SSH daemon 
on the machine where you've already installed rdiff-backup) or even using the 
tricks in the test scripts (check testing/commontest.py, e.g. the rdiff_backup 
function).
2. actually, it's even better if you test the beta against 2.0.5, with which it 
should be compatible but we don't have those kind of tests in our pipeline.

Thanks for taking care, so or so,
Eric

On September 13, 2022 3:21:56 AM UTC, Robert Nichols 
<rnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net> wrote:
>On 9/10/22 4:11 AM, Frank Crawford wrote:
>> On Wed, 2022-09-07 at 18:11 +0200, EricZolf wrote:
>>> Hello everybody,
>>> 
>>> This is a beta release so that many people can test before this
>>> becomes
>>> the next stable release. All changes are documented in the changelog
>>> <https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-
>>> backup/blob/v2.1.2b1/CHANGELOG.adoc#new-in-v2-1-2b1>.
>>> 
>> 
>> For those who want to test it on Fedora or RedHat system, this beta
>> release has been packaged and is available at:
>> 
>> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/frankcrawford/rdiff-backup/
>> 
>> or using DNF:
>> 
>> dnf copr enable frankcrawford/rdiff-backup
>> dnf install rdiff-backup or dnf update rdiff-backup
>
>Thanks for doing that. v2.1.2b1 seems to work well on a Rocky Linux 8.6
>system with Python 3.6. I haven't been able to test with a remote client
>yet since I would have to have the same beta version on both ends of the
>connection. I'll have to decide how I want to try that.
>