Re: Borgmatic

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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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