of corruption.
- It currently only works on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS X >= 10.4,
- Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin, and maybe with WSL). Patches to
- support other platforms are welcome.
+ Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin, and WSL). Patches to support
+ other platforms are welcome.
- Until resolved, a [glibc bug](https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26034)
might cause bup to crash on startup for some (unusual) command line
apt-get install python-pyxattr
apt-get install pkg-config linux-libc-dev libacl1-dev
apt-get install acl attr
+ apt-get isntall python-pytest-xdist # optional (parallel tests)
apt-get install libreadline-dev # optional (bup ftp)
apt-get install python-tornado # optional (bup web)
```
```sh
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
- yum install python python-devel libacl-devel
+ yum install python2 python2-devel libacl-devel pylibacl
yum install fuse-python pyxattr
yum install perl-Time-HiRes
yum install readline-devel # optional (bup ftp)
make check
```
+ If you have the Python xdist module installed, then you can
+ probably run the tests faster by adding the make -j option (see <a
+ href="HACKING">./HACKING</a> for additional information):
+
+ ```sh
+ make -j check
+ ```
+
The tests should pass. If they don't pass for you, stop here and
send an email to bup-list@googlegroups.com. Though if there are
symbolic links along the current working directory path, the tests
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=bup
- Fedora:
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/bup
+ - macOS (Homebrew):
+ https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/bup
Using bup
- There is no support for ACLs. If/when some enterprising person
fixes this, adjust dev/compare-trees.
- - In test/ext/test.sh, two tests have been disabled. These tests check to
- see that repeated saves produce identical trees and that an
- intervening index doesn't change the SHA1. Apparently Cygwin has
- some unusual behaviors with respect to access times (that probably
- warrant further investigation). Possibly related:
+ - In test/ext/test-misc, two tests have been disabled. These tests
+ check to see that repeated saves produce identical trees and that
+ an intervening index doesn't change the SHA1. Apparently Cygwin
+ has some unusual behaviors with respect to access times (that
+ probably warrant further investigation). Possibly related:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00436.html