Commit e95d43ee authored by owsla's avatar owsla

Improve README in advance of a new stable release


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup@836 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
parent b8f014c5
......@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ Finally, the --lflags and --libs options, and the LFLAGS and LIBS
environment variables are also recognized. Running setup.py with no
arguments will display some help.
More information about using setup.py and how rdiff-backup is installed
is available from the Python guide, Installing Python Modules for System
Administrators, located at http://docs.python.org/inst/inst.html,
particularly Section 4.
REQUIREMENTS:
......@@ -37,16 +41,20 @@ rdiff-backup homepage at http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/ should
have a recent version of librsync; otherwise see the librsync homepage
at http://librsync.sourceforge.net/.
For remote operation, rdiff-backup should be in installed and in the
For remote operation, rdiff-backup should be installed and in the
PATH on remote system(s) (see man page for more information).
The python modules pylibacl and pyxattr are optional. If they are
installed and in the default pythonpath, rdiff-backup will support
access control lists and user extended attributes, provided the file
system(s) also support these features. Pylibacl and pxattr can be
system(s) also support these features. Pylibacl and pyxattr can be
downloaded from http://pylibacl.sourceforge.net/ and
http://pyxattr.sourceforge.net/.
http://pyxattr.sourceforge.net/. Mac OS X users need a different
pyxattr module, which can be downloaded from
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/xattr
If you want to use rdiff-backup-statistics, you must have Python 2.4
or later.
TROUBLESHOOTING:
......@@ -54,3 +62,5 @@ If you have everything installed properly, and it still doesn't work,
see the enclosed FAQ.html, the web page at
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/, and/or the mailing list.
The FAQ in particular is an important reference, especially if you are
using smbfs/CIFS, Windows, or have compiled by hand on Mac OS X.
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