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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CVS-README b/rdiff-backup/CVS-README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a5dab3 --- /dev/null +++ b/rdiff-backup/CVS-README @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +CVS README - Notes for people checking out of CVS +------------------------------------------------- + +Getting rdiff-backup to run: +---------------------------- + +If you want to run a version of rdiff-backup checked out of CVS into +your $RDB_ROOT directory, change to $RDB_ROOT/rdiff_backup and run the +./compilec.py file. With any luck, _librsync.so and C.so libraries +will appear in that directory. Then run rdiff-backup, making sure +that all the files are in your PYTHONPATH: + +PYTHONPATH=$RDB_ROOT $RDB_ROOT/rdiff-backup + + +Running the unit tests: +----------------------- + +If you want to try some of tests, you first have to untar the +testfiles.tar.gz as root (the tarball contains device files, files +with various uid/gid, etc): + +cd testing; tar -xvzf testfiles.tar.gz + +Then run the various *test.py files, for instance: + +cd testing; python lazytest.py |