On 3/3/06, Gregory, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone, maybe someone will be help me out here and answer my question.
> Ok it's not fink related but it's on the subject of rsync. :}
>
> I'm no expert here, but i do keep hearing that Apple's release of rsync
> doesn't work (finks?) and now i'm hearing that Apple's latest security
> patches are causing troubles..
>
> So i went to the rsync web page and downloaded the latest official build. Did
> the usual config/make/make install and now i use this to backup my htdocs
> folder on an hourly basis.
>
> Ok i didn't use fink but I get the feeling I'm missing something here? That
> install procedure above seemed obvious to me and now i'm wondering if any
> rsync fails because of incomptibilities with something Apple specific (so no
> matter where i get rsync from..it's broken!) Is this the case?
>
> Mine is a humble 'script' containing nothing more than:
> rsync -a --delete source dest
> (This as a crontab runs hourly under root..)
>
> Should i consider an alternative? I used to use SCP but rsync is ideal for
> keeping my backup folder upto date. Or so i thought!
>
> Appreciate any advice.
> Cheers all,
> Steve.
>
What the "official" rsync has that Fink's package lacks (I'm not sure
about your build) is support for resource forks.
What got broken in the new "official" update was support for the
--delete flag. This causes breakage in fink's selfupdates since that
procedure uses 'rsync --delete'. If you've got '--delete' you're
fine.
Things like this can happen with any interface change--people expect a
program to take certain flags, and any change can screw that up. For
example, I'm the maintainer for fink's wget package and discovered
the hard way that the upstream developers had changed a flag. On one
hand they made it more like the other GNU packages ('--no-verbose'
instead of the prior '--non-verbose'). However, fink expected
'--non-verbose'. I had to modify fink's code to accept the new flag.
I had thought that fink wanted to use /usr/bin/rsync explicitly, but
it looks like it just calls "rsync".
--
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter
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