Debian Bug report logs - #444972
duplicity: call to ncftpput fails

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: duplicity: call to ncftpput fails

Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:29:01 +0200

Package: duplicity
Version: 0.4.3-3
Severity: normal


duplicity calls ncftgput (version 3.2.0) in the wrong way
which results in duplicity aborting with:

ncftpput: cannot open : no remote host was specified.

Other than documented ncftpput called with the -f option
and the -C options wants do be called with the hostname 
specified in the cfg file and without the hostname after the
-C option. See bug #444971.

The following patch fixes the problem:

diff -c 
/usr/share/pycentral/duplicity/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py\~ 
/usr/share/pycentral/duplicity/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py
*** /usr/share/pycentral/duplicity/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py~	
Tue Sep 25 05:36:18 2007
--- /usr/share/pycentral/duplicity/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py	
Tue Oct  2 12:59:58 2007
***************
*** 524,529 ****
--- 524,530 ----
  			self.conn_opt = '-F'
   		self.tempfile, self.tempname = 
tempfile.mkstemp("","duplicity.")
   		atexit.register(os.unlink, self.tempname)
+  		os.write(self.tempfile, "host %s\n" % parsed_url.host)
   		os.write(self.tempfile, "user %s\n" % parsed_url.user)
   		os.write(self.tempfile, "pass %s\n" % self.password)
   		os.close(self.tempfile)
***************
*** 534,541 ****
  		"""Transfer source_path to remote_filename"""
  		pu = ParsedUrl(self.url_string)
  		remote_path = os.path.join (pu.path, 
remote_filename).rstrip()
! 		commandline = "ncftpput %s -V -C '%s' '%s' '%s'" % \
! 					  (self.flags, pu.host, 
source_path.name, remote_path)
  		self.run_command_persist(commandline)
  
  	def get(self, remote_filename, local_path):
--- 535,542 ----
  		"""Transfer source_path to remote_filename"""
  		pu = ParsedUrl(self.url_string)
  		remote_path = os.path.join (pu.path, 
remote_filename).rstrip()
! 		commandline = "ncftpput %s -V -C '%s' '%s'" % \
! 					  (self.flags, source_path.name, 
remote_path)
  		self.run_command_persist(commandline)
  
  	def get(self, remote_filename, local_path):

Christoph

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (70, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages duplicity depends on:
ii  gnupg                  1.4.6-2           GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  librsync1              0.9.7-1           Library which implements the rsync
ii  python                 2.4.4-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central         0.5.12            register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-gnupginterface  0.3.2-9           Python interface to GnuPG (GPG)
ii  python-pexpect         2.1-1             Python module for automating inter
ii  ncftp                  3.2.0-1           A user-friendly and well-featured

duplicity recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 444972@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexander Zangerl <az@snafu.priv.at>

To: Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>, 444972@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#444972: duplicity: call to ncftpput fails

Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:41:27 +1000

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On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:29:01 +0200, Christoph Martin writes:
>Other than documented ncftpput called with the -f option
>and the -C options wants do be called with the hostname 
>specified in the cfg file and without the hostname after the
>-C option. See bug #444971.
>The following patch fixes the problem:
...

according to the ncftp people's changelog, the first version 
which cleanly works with -f/-C is 3.2.1, and upstream has decided
to concentrate on making duplicity cooperate with that version.

still, i'll have a look at your patch and will check if it
works with both old and new versions, but otherwise i'm
more leaning towards uploading a new package which does 
conflict with the older ncftp versions.

regards
az




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Message #15 received at 444972-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexander Zangerl <az@debian.org>

To: 444972-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#444972: fixed in duplicity 0.4.3-4

Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:47:02 +0000

Source: duplicity
Source-Version: 0.4.3-4

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
duplicity, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

duplicity_0.4.3-4.diff.gz
  to pool/main/d/duplicity/duplicity_0.4.3-4.diff.gz
duplicity_0.4.3-4.dsc
  to pool/main/d/duplicity/duplicity_0.4.3-4.dsc
duplicity_0.4.3-4_i386.deb
  to pool/main/d/duplicity/duplicity_0.4.3-4_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 444972@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alexander Zangerl <az@debian.org> (supplier of updated duplicity package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Sat,  6 Oct 2007 20:02:43 +1000
Source: duplicity
Binary: duplicity
Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.4.3-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Alexander Zangerl <az@debian.org>
Changed-By: Alexander Zangerl <az@debian.org>
Description: 
 duplicity  - encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup
Closes: 444972
Changes: 
 duplicity (0.4.3-4) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * applied Christoph Martin's patch to the ftp backend
     to make duplicity cooperate with etch's ncftp (closes: #444972)
Files: 
 27fe9583c017ce97984a52933fb3af7d 663 utils optional duplicity_0.4.3-4.dsc
 5d04b9dc2b9be79d5f35699abfe2695c 11142 utils optional duplicity_0.4.3-4.diff.gz
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