MacPorts borg is broken?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Thank you for the info.

On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 3:44 AM Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 10:25:33PM -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > A script that I wrote which calls borg reported the following:
> > *******************
> > You do not have a supported version of the msgpack python package
> > installed. Terminating.
> > This should never happen as specific, supported versions are required
> > by our setup.py.
> > Do not contact borgbackup support about this.
> > *******************
> >
> >  which borg
> > /opt/local/bin/borg
> >
> > borg --version
> > borg 1.2.3
> >
> > port installed | grep msgpack
> >   py310-msgpack @1.0.4_2
> >   py310-msgpack @1.0.5_0 (active)
> >
> > port installed | grep borg
> >   borgbackup @1.2.3_0 (active)
> >
> >   I
> >
> > I was successfully using my backup script based on borg for several
> > months now (running it every time I go a local git commit), but
> > tonight it fails with the above error message.
> >
> > I tried to fix this problem by uninstalling borg and reinstalling it,
> > but still get the same error.
> >
> > I was using borg from homebrew last year, but I moved completely to
> > MacPorts for some while now.
> >
> > I'd rather use MacPorts than going back to homebrew, or trying to
> > build from source (not sure if a compatible downloadable binary
> > exists).
>
> See https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/17934. Borg upstream
> seems to think the devil lurks behind every new minor release of the
> msgpack library upstream and wants to whitelist them manually. Upstream
> did that yesterday in
>
>   https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/commit/2842463f21499e3cb0258283ba4f0e349e46678e,
>
> and the PR above backports this change, since upstream has not yet
> released a new version of borg with this change merged.
>
> --
> Clemens
>