Obnam 1.0 released [LWN.net]

Obnam 1.0 released

Posted Jun 7, 2012 11:55 UTC (Thu) by liw (subscriber, #6379)
In reply to: Obnam 1.0 released by callegar
Parent article: Obnam 1.0 released

The Python stack trace is awful for the user, but it's there as a development aid. If a user sees it, something is badly wrong in Obnam.

Are you sure you have the right version of Obnam? How do you check that? Obnam is supposed to report the right version number in the log file or with "obnam --version", and if it isn't 1.0 then something's wrong.

Do you have the right version of the Larch Python library installed? That stack trace looks like there's an old version installed. Are you running on Debian? Ubuntu? Somewhere else? The Ubuntu PPA is in the process of being updated to fix a few problems with wrong versions. If you're on either Ubuntu or Debian, what is the output of "dpkg -l obnam python-larch"?

(See also my response at http://liw.fi/obnam/bugs/Obnam_cannot_backup_with_failed_... )

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Obnam 1.0 released

Posted Jun 7, 2012 22:50 UTC (Thu) by callegar (guest, #16148) [Link]

My big fault. All my apologies. Went to the ubuntu ppa, saw the 1.0 release, added the PPA, added obnam without noticing that due to build problems the 1.0 release wasn't actually available, probably mixed an older obnam with a too modern larch.

Obnam 1.0 released

Posted Jun 8, 2012 6:56 UTC (Fri) by liw (subscriber, #6379) [Link]

No worries: it's really my fault for generating such a large pile of packages to be kept in sync. I hope Obnam is more to your satisfaction now.