I've recently started experimenting with Borg as a deduplicating backup system ('dnf install borgbackup'). Think 'duplicity' on steroids. However there are many quite complex configuration options and a number of efforts exist to make things simpler for the average user, especially when setting up an automated backup regime (the only kind of backup that's worth a candle of course).
One of these is a Python3 script called Borgmatic (https://torsion.org/ borgmatic/), which is easy to install using pip3 but needs some minor tweaking to run on Fedora (it installs in /usr/local/bin, which is not in the default PATH for sudo). It would be much more elegant if this could be done as a proper Fedora package and installed in /usr/bin. I've been in touch with the creator and although he has no issue with this happening he's not a Fedora user himself. I'm not volunteering to do it either because a) I have no experience of package creation and maintenance, and b) Borg itself is already maintained as part of Fedora, so the logical step would be for the Fedora maintainer to take it on. What is the approved process for suggesting this?
poc
On 04/10/18 19:30, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I've recently started experimenting with Borg as a deduplicating backup system ('dnf install borgbackup'). Think 'duplicity' on steroids. However there are many quite complex configuration options and a number of efforts exist to make things simpler for the average user, especially when setting up an automated backup regime (the only kind of backup that's worth a candle of course).
One of these is a Python3 script called Borgmatic (https://torsion.org/ borgmatic/), which is easy to install using pip3 but needs some minor tweaking to run on Fedora (it installs in /usr/local/bin, which is not in the default PATH for sudo). It would be much more elegant if this could be done as a proper Fedora package and installed in /usr/bin. I've been in touch with the creator and although he has no issue with this happening he's not a Fedora user himself. I'm not volunteering to do it either because a) I have no experience of package creation and maintenance, and b) Borg itself is already maintained as part of Fedora, so the logical step would be for the Fedora maintainer to take it on. What is the approved process for suggesting this?
I don't know the "official or approved" process but looking in koji I see that Benjamin Pereto benjamin@sandchaschte.ch is doing all the builds and appears in the changelog. So, being the dummy I am I'd email him. :-) :-)
On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 20:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 04/10/18 19:30, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I've recently started experimenting with Borg as a deduplicating backup system ('dnf install borgbackup'). Think 'duplicity' on steroids. However there are many quite complex configuration options and a number of efforts exist to make things simpler for the average user, especially when setting up an automated backup regime (the only kind of backup that's worth a candle of course).
One of these is a Python3 script called Borgmatic (https://torsion.org/ borgmatic/), which is easy to install using pip3 but needs some minor tweaking to run on Fedora (it installs in /usr/local/bin, which is not in the default PATH for sudo). It would be much more elegant if this could be done as a proper Fedora package and installed in /usr/bin. I've been in touch with the creator and although he has no issue with this happening he's not a Fedora user himself. I'm not volunteering to do it either because a) I have no experience of package creation and maintenance, and b) Borg itself is already maintained as part of Fedora, so the logical step would be for the Fedora maintainer to take it on. What is the approved process for suggesting this?
I don't know the "official or approved" process but looking in koji I see that Benjamin Pereto benjamin@sandchaschte.ch is doing all the builds and appears in the changelog. So, being the dummy I am I'd email him. :-) :-)
OK, I had just looked at 'rpm -qi ...' which is less specific. I'll do that.
poc
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 20:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
I don't know the "official or approved" process but looking in koji I see that Benjamin Pereto benjamin@sandchaschte.ch is doing all the builds and appears in the changelog. So, being the dummy I am I'd email him. :-) :-)
OK, I had just looked at 'rpm -qi ...' which is less specific. I'll do that.
You can reach all the maintainers of a given package using the alias <package>-owner@fedoraproject.org.
I'm not sure if this is something you're thinking could be added to the existing package or would be a new package, just related to the current one. If the former, filing a bug as an enhancement request. The wiki goes into a little detail about this (and covers new package requests as well):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests#Enhancement_Request...
On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 11:53 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 20:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
I don't know the "official or approved" process but looking in koji I see that Benjamin Pereto benjamin@sandchaschte.ch is doing all the builds and appears in the changelog. So, being the dummy I am I'd email him. :-) :-)
OK, I had just looked at 'rpm -qi ...' which is less specific. I'll do that.
You can reach all the maintainers of a given package using the alias <package>-owner@fedoraproject.org.
I'm not sure if this is something you're thinking could be added to the existing package or would be a new package, just related to the current one. If the former, filing a bug as an enhancement request. The wiki goes into a little detail about this (and covers new package requests as well):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests#Enhancement_Request...
Thanks. I've already communicated with the package maintainer and he's willing to take it on. I think it should be separate from the main Borg package but he may feel differently.
poc
On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 17:19 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 11:53 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 20:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
I don't know the "official or approved" process but looking in koji I see that Benjamin Pereto benjamin@sandchaschte.ch is doing all the builds and appears in the changelog. So, being the dummy I am I'd email him. :-) :-)
OK, I had just looked at 'rpm -qi ...' which is less specific. I'll do that.
You can reach all the maintainers of a given package using the alias <package>-owner@fedoraproject.org.
I'm not sure if this is something you're thinking could be added to the existing package or would be a new package, just related to the current one. If the former, filing a bug as an enhancement request. The wiki goes into a little detail about this (and covers new package requests as well):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests#Enhancement_Request...
Thanks. I've already communicated with the package maintainer and he's willing to take it on. I think it should be separate from the main Borg package but he may feel differently.
The maintainer has accepted the idea and Borgmatic is on track for F28 and EL-7:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?search=borgmatic
Thanks to Ed and Todd for the suggestions.
poc
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
The maintainer has accepted the idea and Borgmatic is on track for F28 and EL-7:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?search=borgmatic
Thanks to Ed and Todd for the suggestions.
Excellent! Thanks for nudging things forward. Soon someone else will run 'dnf install borgmatic' and be happy that it's available so easily. :)
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