Dear all,
first of all, FINK rocks! but: can anybody explain to me why the rsync version installed by fink is not the HFS+ filesystem enhanced version of rsync? (see <http:// www.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html>) With MacOSX, apple has moved to HFS+ for the formerly UFS based NeXTStep operatingsystem. Most of the common unix tools that deal with files (cpio, tar, gnutar, pax, rsync, cp, mv, ...) do a pretty good job when dealing with UFS descendend based files and their meta information. However, Carbon apps still use a lot of meta-information in files that are unique to HFS(+), mostly resource forks and aliases. This leads to the situation that you cannot truely backup (and successfully restore!) a MaxOSX folder or even drive with the plain vanilla unix tools when there are carbon applications and their data files in it. now: - is there a good reason why fink does not install the HFS+ enhanced evrsion of a tool when available? - case this is just because noone has put it into fink yet (or was aware of the need), what is the protocol to get it into fink? Thanks & regards, Stefan ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Stuff, things, and much much more. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
