Re: New command line interface not backward compatible ?

[Eric Zolf]

Hi,

`rdiff-backup -v5 docs /tmp/bak` works as expected for me. I tried a few 
variants and it always works. Fedora 38 with rdiff-backup 2.2.4 (as 
packaged).

We also still use the old CLI a lot in our pipeline tests, so there must 
be another issue on your end.

It looks like rdiff-backup doesn't find its action plugins. rdiff-backup 
--help should show at the end a list of those:

possible actions:
{backup,calculate,compare,complete,info,list,regress,remove,restore,server,test,verify}

If not, something is wrong with your installation or (python) setup.

KR, Eric

On 27/04/2023 14:23, Reio Remma wrote:
> On 27.04.2023 14:59, Patrik Dufresne wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm slowly migrating from v2.0 to v2.2 and I'm getting this error message
> >
> > rdiff-backup -v 5 /tmp /test
> > [138] Failed to execute script 'rdiff-backup' due to unhandled exception!
> > WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will disappear,
> > start using the new one as described with '--new --help'.
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "rdiff-backup", line 8, in <module>
> >    File "rdiffbackup/run.py", line 37, in main
> >    File "rdiffbackup/run.py", line 72, in main_run
> > KeyError: 'backup'
> >
> > I know there is a new command line interface since v2.2, but I thought it
> > was backward compatible with v2.0. I'm probably missing something 
> > obvious.
> >
> > Thanks for helping
>
> Hello!
>
> As far as I can tell, the API is compatible, but CLI is new.
>
> Oddly I didn't get such an error with the same syntax, but:
>
> rdiff-backup: error: argument action: invalid choice: 'bin' (choose from 
> 'backup', 'calculate', 'compare', 'complete', 'info', 'list', 'regress', 
> 'remove', 'restore', 'server', 'test', 'verify')
>
> Running v2.2.4 here.
>
> Good luck!
> Reio