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From: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
To: Benjamin Slade <beoram@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: backup questions
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:53:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180820005356.611d1605@alma-ubu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180807015708.222ae182@alma-ubu>

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Hi Ben,

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 01:57:08 +0200
Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
> 
> On Mon, 06 Aug 2018 16:05:28 -0600
> Benjamin Slade <beoram@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Two question relating to backup:
> >   
> 
> [..]
> 
> > 2) I don't seem to be able to install `libchip` (for chop-backup).
> > It seems to have no substitute binaries and the local build fails.
> > I've fallen back to using Borg backup for now (which seems good,
> > but more fragile than I'd like, especially in terms of setting up
> > automated bash scripts).  
> 
> 
> This build fails since nearly two years! It seams like nobody is using
> (and thus complaining) this software:
> 
> 
> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/libchop-0.5.2.x86_64-linux/all
> 
> I opened a bug for this:
> 
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32382
> 
> Thanks for reporting. Do you have an idea on how to fix it?
> 
> Björn


Ludovic fixed the package, so if you do a 

guix pull && guix package -i libchop

it should be working now.

But he also wrote that libchop is unmaintained (and what I didn't know:
he's the author :-)).

Björn

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-19 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-06 22:05 backup questions Benjamin Slade
2018-08-06 22:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-08-06 23:15   ` Benjamin Slade
2018-08-06 23:57 ` Björn Höfling
2018-08-19 22:53   ` Björn Höfling [this message]
2018-08-21  4:09     ` Benjamin Slade

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