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G'day, not sure if this constitutes Basic Support, if not please move it, but I have a question on Timeshift.

Version available in the Repos in Mageia 8 is only 20.3, coming up 3 years old, and I note from the Package List for Mageia 9 Alpha that it includes

glib2.0-common-2.74.0

This gives the GUI side of Timeshift a belly ache and it falls over, whether taking a snapshot or restoring a snapshot. The CLI alternative will work, but that is not desirable.

Timeshift needs to be at least v22.6.2 to accommodate the GNOME package.

OpenMandriva, openSUSE and Fedora 37 have all switched up to the latest 22.11.2 and I am wondering if Mageia have plans to follow suit.

Thanks in anticipation

Chris Turner
wizardfromoz

Thank you for noticing.
Time shift was imported at https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26592
Please open a separate update request.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly

wizardfromoz wrote:Version available in the Repos in Mageia 8 is only 20.3, coming up 3 years old

Hi there, just for completeness sake: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_poli ... ion_Policy
Just because there's a newer version doesn't mean that this will be updated to that in the stable release.

Also timeshift has already been updated to 22.06.5 half a year ago for cauldron:
https://madb.mageia.org/package/show/re ... /timeshift

Well yes.
Issue a bug describing the problem.
Updating it may be one method, patching another, to get it working.
In practice we regularly update libreoffice, browsers, CAD and others to latest stable versions.
And other interoperability programs like file sync, in order for users to use them with updated counterparts.

My mistake, a typo I should have said

"Timeshift needs to be at least v22.6.2 to accommodate the GNOME package."

22.6.5 won't fix it, and I am not using Cauldron. I do not have the issue on Mageia 8 so no point in my filing a bug.

Tony George (author of Timeshift, but has now handed over to Linux Mint) has this

https://github.com/teejee2008/Timeshift/releases

and this

https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift/issues/937

I am an Administrator over at linux.org and run 84 Linux Distros, and 83 of them are now running current Timeshifts, the exception being Mageia.

If you take a look at pkgs.org, and search timeshift, you will find at the bottom

timeshift latest versions: 22.11.2, 22.11.1, 22.06.6,

I first encountered the issue with Manjaro late September, and one of our Members, @Oldhabbits likewise, he reported it to Manjaro Forums, and one of their Members contacted Tony George, who whizzed up a fix, which was 22.06.6

Anyway, I will leave it with you, and wait until the issue is fixed before using Mageia 9.

Thanks

wizardfromoz

I've taken the freedom to report this as: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31563

Thank you Herr Doktor.

I will look forward to the release of Mageia 9.

wizardfromoz

wizardfromoz, please test the updated packages in updates testing repo and report on the bug

G'day @morgano. Mate you might need to enlighten me as to where "updates testing repo" is.

Also with "and report on the bug".

Is this in any conflict with what @doktor5000 has already done?

Wizard

EDIT!

Sorry. In my first version of this reply I mixed up and wrote like this this was Mageia 8.

For a stable release it works like i wrote below.

But for Cauldron you will get the new version when updating normally.

Then reply to the bug if it works or not.

/EDIT.

Doktor opened the bug.
A packager packaged the fix, and it is now in core updates testing repository.
QA member or any interested user (You ) will now test it, and report on the bug.
See https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Enabling_the_Testing_media
Someone authorised will approve it when it is enough tested OK.
It will then be moved to regular updates media, and all users will get it by normal updates.

Regrets on the delay.

So can I just check (I am currently using Mageia 8, non-Cauldron).

Do you want me to download and install Mageia 9 Alpha, enable the testing media, install Timeshift, and then report back to the bug URL on whether it works OK?

I don't mind doing so, just wanted to be clear.

Cheers

Wizard

That would be great, thanks

Yes, when updating Cauldron/Mageia9 you will get everything that is new, including the new timeshift.
(regardless if initial install is Alpha, soon coming Beta1, or a Netinstall)
(On Cauldron, fewer packages first sits in testing repo. They may be a new KDE/Plasma set for example, but seldom leaf packages)

When verified working in cauldron, we may consider updating in mga8 if there is interest.

If you like testing, you are warmly welcome in QA team and also ISOtesters

@morgano I have responded at the Bug URL that I have conducted 5 types of tests on Timeshift v22.11.2 on Mageia Alpha 9 and it passed all tests.

Cheers

Wizard

Nice. Thank you