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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.

AUR helpers are not helpful. Build with makepkg and it works fine.

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.