CentOS 6 lacks remote SSH option feature

I've no control over distribution packages and even don't know the BIT maintainer for CentOS. At the moment I only provide a repository (PPA) for Ubuntu and there is a script to create .deb packages for Debian in source tarball. But I'd like to use http://openbuildservice.org in future to provide packages for other distributions, too.

For the moment I'd install BIT from tarball on CentOS 6. Take a look at the README for all dependencies.

In Perl there's a way to sandbox different installations of the Perl binary, so you can get multiple versions. They call them brews. On CentOS 6 you have Python 2 installed and that's it for the system's Python. If you want Python 3, it appears you have to compile it, which is fine, but I don't know how to sandbox it. It would probably conflict with the system Python installation, which would cause problems system-wide. I'm not sure that the current tarball can be installed on CentOS 6. Am I missing something?

In Perl there's a way to sandbox different installations of the Perl
binary, so you can get multiple versions. They call them brews. On CentOS
6 you have Python 2 installed and that's it for the system's Python. If
you want Python 3, it appears you have to compile it, which is fine, but I
don't know how to sandbox it. It would probably conflict with the system
Python installation, which would cause problems system-wide. I'm not sure
that the current tarball can be installed on CentOS 6. Am I missing
something?

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> I've no control over distribution packages and even don't know the BIT
> maintainer for CentOS. At the moment I only provide a repository (PPA)
> for Ubuntu and there is a script to create .deb packages for Debian in
> source tarball. But I'd like to use http://openbuildservice.org in
> future to provide packages for other distributions, too.
>
> For the moment I'd install BIT from tarball on CentOS 6. Take a look at
> the README for all dependencies.
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I switched BIT to Python3 with 1.1.0. So you could use the 1.0 series of BIT https://launchpad.net/backintime/1.0

At the moment it would be best if you branch the development tree because bug #1406087 is already fixed in there. If you have bzr you can run 'bzr branch lp:backintime/1.0'

Otherwise just use backintime-1.0.40.tar.gz and the patch I provided in bug #1406087

The 1.10 series does not have the sshfs and encfs features, so it's not exactly a solution. I'd love to get that encfs on CentOS 6! Thanks though :-)

You mean 1.0.10 doesn't have SSH mode. But I added that in 1.0.12 ;-)

Latest release of the 1.0 series is 1.0.40 and this works with Python2 and provides SSH and encryption, too.

Thanks. This should fill the need. =)

If necessary I can provide bugfix support for 1.0 series, too. But no new features...