X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=31bb2bfefb79e379d88408b1b9e295c0c5e1f4ff;hb=e662e6790e1a1275b6d44d71afeec32178aee295;hp=a5a87368f8d3e8179b59e8b557e1c9d5801519f4;hpb=3872c5c79d60ff7a5b4a48dac055447dc8c257aa;p=bup.git diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a5a8736..31bb2bf 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -71,28 +71,37 @@ Reasons you might want to avoid bup for you, but we don't know why. It is also missing some probably-critical features. - - It requires python >= 2.5, a C compiler, and an installed git + - It requires python >= 2.6, a C compiler, and an installed git version >= 1.5.3.1. It also requires par2 if you want fsck to be able to generate the information needed to recover from some types of corruption. - - It currently only works on Linux, MacOS X >= 10.4, - NetBSD, Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin). Patches to support - other platforms are welcome. + - It currently only works on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS X >= 10.4, + Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin). Patches to support other + platforms are welcome. - Any items in "Things that are stupid" below. - + +Notable changes introduced by a release +======================================= + + - Changes in 0.29.1 as compared to 0.29 + - Changes in 0.29 as compared to 0.28.1 + - Changes in 0.28.1 as compared to 0.28 + - Changes in 0.28 as compared to 0.27.1 + - Changes in 0.27.1 as compared to 0.27 + + Getting started =============== - From source ----------- - Check out the bup source code using git: - git clone git://github.com/bup/bup + git clone https://github.com/bup/bup - Install the required python libraries (including the development libraries). @@ -102,8 +111,8 @@ From source apt-get build-dep bup - Otherwise try this (substitute python2.5-dev or python2.6-dev if - you have an older system): + Otherwise try this (substitute python2.6-dev if you have an older + system): apt-get install python2.7-dev python-fuse apt-get install python-pyxattr python-pylibacl @@ -143,13 +152,13 @@ From source may fail. Running something like this before "make test" should sidestep the problem: - cd "$(/bin/pwd)" + cd "$(pwd -P)" - You can install bup via "make install", and override the default destination with DESTDIR and PREFIX. Files are normally installed to "$DESTDIR/$PREFIX" where DESTDIR is - empty by default, and PREFIX is set to /usr. So if you wanted to + empty by default, and PREFIX is set to /usr/local. So if you wanted to install bup to /opt/bup, you might do something like this: make install DESTDIR=/opt/bup PREFIX='' @@ -488,7 +497,8 @@ mailing list (see below) if you'd like to help. workaround is to just start a new BUP_DIR occasionally, i.e. bup-2013, bup-2014... - - bup has never been tested on anything but Linux, MacOS, and Windows+Cygwin. + - bup has never been tested on anything but Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, + OS X, and Windows+Cygwin. There's nothing that makes it *inherently* non-portable, though, so that's mostly a matter of someone putting in some effort. (For a @@ -511,10 +521,9 @@ mailing list (see below) if you'd like to help. - bup has no GUI. - Actually, that's not stupid, but you might consider it a limitation. - There are a bunch of Linux GUI backup programs; someday I expect someone - will adapt one of them to use bup. - + Actually, that's not stupid, but you might consider it a + limitation. See the ["Related Projects"](https://bup.github.io/) + list for some possible options. More Documentation ==================