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Using an AUR helper such as yay to build packages including backintime is HIGHLY discouraged. The recommended build method is to use a clean chroot. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot

I wrote a script that automates much of that called clean-chroot-manager offered here in the AUR.

Please stop posting build failures because you insist on building with yay or other AUR helpers.

Installation failed with errors

$ yay backintime ...

gzip -n --best -c config-example-ssh > config-example-ssh.gz All OK. Now run: make sudo make install

man pages

for i in $(ls -1 man/C/); do case $i in .gz|~) continue;; *) gzip -n --best -c man/C/$i > man/C/${i}.gz;; esac; done ==> Betrete fakeroot Umgebung... /usr/share/makepkg/util/util.sh: line 49: ${!v@a}: bad substitution /usr/share/makepkg/util/util.sh: line 49: ${!v@a}: bad substitution /usr/bin/makepkg: line 395: local: `-': not a valid identifier ...

-> Komprimiere Paket... /usr/bin/makepkg: line 395: local: `-': not a valid identifier error making: backintime (backintime-cli backintime)

Please change _pkgname to pkgbase since this is a split package.

They forgot to bump the version:

prepare() {
  cd "$pkgbase-$pkgver"

  # Correct version in About dialog
  sed -i 's/1.2.0/1.3.0/g' VERSION common/config.py
}

test() is not a valid function, it's check(). The tests are failing, I'm still working on why.

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FAIL: test_powerStatusAvailable (test.test_tools.TestTools)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/build/backintime/src/backintime-1.3.0/common/test/test_tools.py", line 328, in test_powerStatusAvailable
    self.assertTrue(tools.powerStatusAvailable())
AssertionError: False is not true

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Fedora removes test_tools.py, but If I do that they fail because it's missing:

python -m unittest -v -b test/test_tools.py
test/test_tools (unittest.loader._FailedTest) ... ERROR

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ERROR: test/test_tools (unittest.loader._FailedTest)
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ImportError: Failed to import test module: test/test_tools
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/unittest/loader.py", line 154, in loadTestsFromName
    module = __import__(module_name)
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'test/test_tools'


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Updated in 1.2.1-2

I am running into an issue when running backintime:

[code] AttributeError: 'TempPasswordThread' object has no attribute 'isAlive' /usr/bin/backintime-qt: line 31: 22945 Aborted (core dumped) python -Es ${APP_PATH}/app.py "$@ [/code]

As I understand this issue was solved upstream. Should the pkgbuild be updated?

https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1134

arch. Maybe something is messed up with my python setup, as I have package installed with pip as user and packages from pacman in the system.

I cannot reproduce. Arch or Manjaro/other?

@graysky same issue.

@deisi - Don't use yay. Build with makepkg.

After an system upgrade today "yay -Syu" backintime is not starting any more due to missing python module: "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dbus'"