Re: [Duplicity-talk] Scp calls

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

On 04.01.2010 18:53, AJ Weber wrote:
> That would be exactly what I would have to do, which means editing the 
> source code -- and I'm not "against" that, nor "afraid" of it, but it 
> breaks compatibility with future duplicity upgrades, etc.
>
> I assume I'd have to edit the sshBackend... code, but maybe it would 
> be better to do it in the main code so the backend becomes 
> irrelevant.  I could maybe implement a "Pre-Connect" and 
> "Post-Connect" hook of sorts that gets called before/after the actual 
> backend connection operation.
>
> Does anyone think that's worthwhile to develop and add to the project, 
> and Ken, would you want to add that back into the codeline as a new 
> feature should I develop it?  I might actually do that work if it was 
> to be included back into future versions; less enthusiastic if I was 
> doing it just for me as a once-off.

Can't you simply tell duplicity to use the scp wrapper script instead of 
pure scp and pass all options to scp inside the script? Worse case 
renaming scp and using the script in its location should work for sure...