[maemo-developers] Duplicity 0.6.02 Has Been Released

[From: George Farris]

This is great but nowhere do you even mention what Duplicity is...


On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 09:12 +0200, Benoît HERVIER wrote:
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> 2009/7/8 Kenneth Loafman <kenneth at loafman.com>:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Even though the list is short, this is a fairly important bug fix
> > release.  Plus, we have completed the process of making the cache
> > consistent with the remote by adding a step that removes any spurious
> > files left over from a previous duplicity run.
> >
> > ...Thanks,
> > ...Ken
> >
> > New in v0.6.02 (2009/07/07)
> > ---------------------------
> > Duplicity will now remove any spurious files left in the cache from
> > a previous run.  This will keep the metadata cache in sync with the
> > remote storage metadata.
> >
> > Bugs fixed this release:
> > 394629  Hang on first collection-status
> > 379386  Fix 'list-current-files' with missing archive dir
> > 395826  "No such file or directory" when backing up second time
> > 394627  User-friendly archive dir print
> > 388699  Manifest mismatch error
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > And since it looks like I did not announce 0.6.01, here it is...
> >
> > This is the first release from Launchpad, and I'm glad I made the move.
> > The website is still on Savannah, but that will be changing.
> >
> > Lots of fixes and some good changes.  The major change is that duplicity
> > will synchronize the archive directory with the remote store on startup.
> >  This fixes a number of issues that occurred when upgrading from the
> > 0.5.x series.  Please read the release notes below for details.
> >
> > You can get it from https://launchpad.net/duplicity/trunk/0.6.01.
> >
> > ...Thanks,
> > ...Ken
> >
> > New in v0.6.01 (2009/07/01)
> > ---------------------------
> > Fixed issues in Checkpoint/Restart:
> > * The --name backupname" option was added to allow the
> >  user to separate one archive from another.  If not
> >  specified, the default is an MD5 hash of the target
> >  URL, which should suffice for most uses.
> >
> > * The archive_dir (cache) is now stored in a standard
> >  location, defaulting to ~/.cache/duplicity.  See
> >  http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
> >
> > * The interaction between the --archive-dir option and
> >  the --name option allows for four possible results
> >  for the location of the archive dir.
> >    + neither specified (default)
> >        ~/.cache/duplicity/hash-of-url
> >    + --archive-dir=~/arch, no --name
> >        ~/arch/hash-of-url
> >    + no --archive-dir, --name=foo
> >        ~/.cache/duplicity/foo
> >    + --archive-dir=~/arch, --name=foo
> >        ~/arch/foo
> >
> > * duplicity will now copy needed metadata from the
> >  remote store to the local cache as needed.  This
> >  means that the first use after upgraded from 0.5.x
> >  will have the metadata copied to the local archive
> >  dir in order to sync both.
> >
> > * cleanup will now work correctly with the archive
> >  dir and separates the local from the remote files.
> >
> > Bugs fixed this release:
> > * 388034     Unable to backup
> > * 378940     python2-6 issue / UTF-8 charset / Ubuntu 9.04
> > * 379386     Fix list-current-files w/ missing archive dir
> > * 387102     Asynchronous upload not working properly
> > * 387218     Make scp/ssh into sftp-only backend
> > * 388992     List of Orphaned Files Growing
> > * 392905     NoneType object has no attribute 'startswith'
> > * 393372     Error creating directory
> > * 383412     Add InfoCodes for upload events
> > * 383419     Add gio backend
> >
> >
> >
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