On Wed, 2022-02-02 at 08:05 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/02/2022 07:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > The current version of Rclone from the Fedora repo is 1.57.0. What
> > isn't clear until you look more closely is that this is a
> > development
> > version. It identifies itself as:
> > 
> > rclone: Version "v1.57.0-DEV"
> > 
> > The upshot is that when connecting to Google Drive the
> > authentication
> > token expires after 7 days and has to be manually refreshed via a
> > web
> > page. This is a PITA for those of us who want to leave an rclone
> > sync
> > or mount daemon running in the background.
> > 
> > I discovered this on asking on the Rclone forum:
> > 
> > https://forum.rclone.org/t/google-drive-requires-manual-refresh-every-7-days/29023
> > 
> > I've now uninstalled the Fedora version and installed the
> > "official"
> > version from the Rclone site. I'll know if that solved the problem
> > in a
> > week's time.
> > 
> > Unlike most other packages, development versions of Rclone cannot
> > avoid
> > this issue because of the way they are registered by the Google
> > API, so
> > should not be distributed as part of the base system.
> 
> You may want to point out your observations on the "test" list and
> possibly even
> the "devel" list.
> 

I would if this were a test version of the RPM, but it isn't. It's the
standard version from the base repo. I may file a BZ report.

> But, I would wait 7 days.  :-)

Yes, I'm doing that.

poc
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