[rdiff-backup-users] Version difference problem

[feffer]

I've been backing up my linux workstation with rdiff-backup. The backup server 
runs debian stable (it is a Linksys NSLU), but the workstation runs debian sid. 
As a result there is a version difference for rdiff on the two systems. On test 
backups, rdiff always complains about this, but runs anyway. To keep the 
version difference close, I "hold" rdiff on the ws. Because of the "hold" rdiff 
got out of sync with some dependancies, I think, and dpkg showed it only "half" 
installed. I got some errors in the backup.log as well. So I took the "hold" 
off and let it upgrade to 1.1.17. However, on the server rdiff was ver. 1.1.14. 
I guess this difference was too much and the backups failed. 

To fix it, I went back and reinstalled testing ver 1.1.16 on the ws, and now 
it's working again. This seems like a problem that will keep coming back 
though. How can I work around this? Any ideas?  :(

Thx,
feffer

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