[Pythonmac-SIG] py-rdiff-backup?

[Alastair Rankine]

On 18/09/2005, at 1:42 PM, Chinook wrote:

> I would like to checkout rdiff-backup usage on Mac OS X (10.4.2)
>
> 1)  Are there any other such users out there?

Definitely! (if you mean 'check out', as opposed to 'trust my life's  
work to' :)

>     2a)  EA support: supposedly with "pyxattr" recognized, but in  
> Mac OS
> X the proper module is "xattr" which I have in my pythonmac 2.4.1
> installation (/usr/local/) and in the DarwinPorts environment
> (/opt/local/).  Other than my PATH variable, how do I get rdiff-backup
> to recognize "xattr?"

I can't really help you here, except to say that I've just submitted  
a new DarwinPorts port for xattr <http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/ 
show_bug.cgi?id=5300>. It's called "py-xattr" in line with  
DarwinPorts convention.

As you might expect, the sematics of xattr (ie Darwin EA) differ  
greatly from pyxattr (ie Linux EA). So you will need to go back to  
the rdiff-backup developers to get Mac xattr support.

I don't know if anyone else in MacPython land has noticed the  
potential naming collision here with "pyxattr", the Linux EA package  
<http://pyxattr.sourceforge.net/> ?

In order to avoid confusion, can I humbly suggest a name change for  
the xattr package? IMHO the package names (both of them) should be  
more representative of the underlying platforms (eg darwin_xattr),  
given the dependencies in each case.