[6.11.5]/boot/extra doesn't install libffi-3.3-x86_64-3.txz

[Autchirion]

Hello all,

 

I need libffi to be able to run borg backup. For this I did these two steps, after running the last command I was able to run borg backup. 

# Download libffi from slackware.uk to /boot/extra:
wget -P /boot/extra/ https://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-15.0/slackware64/l/libffi-3.3-x86_64-3.txz

# Install the package:
installpkg /boot/extra/libffi-3.3-x86_64-3.txz

What I understand, if a package ist stored in /boot/extra/ it will be automatically installed. However, as soon as I reboot it won't be auto installed. My other packets are beeing installed, except for this one.

Any clues why that is?

 

Thank you in advance

Autchi

[Squid]

Unraid will not downgrade a package that already exists at boot time.

 

6.11.2:  libffi: version 3.4.4

[Autchirion]

uh, that's not happy news, since with the version 3.4.4 I'm getting an error with Borg Backup.

 

Now, it seems like borg backup requires the file libffi.so.7 but libffi 3.4.4 doesn't have this file any more. Any known workarounds (except installing it manually via go file, which I don't like)?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/borg/archiver.py", line 41, in <module>
    from .archive import Archive, ArchiveChecker, ArchiveRecreater, Statistics, is_special
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/borg/archive.py", line 20, in <module>
    from . import xattr
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/borg/xattr.py", line 9, in <module>
    from ctypes import CDLL, create_string_buffer, c_ssize_t, c_size_t, c_char_p, c_int, c_uint32, get_errno
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/ctypes/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ImportError: libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory