On 2018-04-13 11:05, Christopher Stone wrote: > My friend's advice and a few places on the Net recommend using this switch on > the Mac: > > --protect-decmpfs (patch by Mike Bombich of CCC fame) > > MacPorts rsync version 3.1.3 protocol version 31 doesn't have this option > available. > > How desirable is this option? > > Is there a way to add the option when building rsync with MacPorts? > > If so I would expect to see a variant, but I've mostly used default ports and > am uneducated about variants. > > I have't fooled with `make` for quite a while (preferring to let MacPorts do > the dirty work for me), but I expect I can make from source if I have to.
I think you are talking about the hfs-compression.diff patch. We used to apply this patch, but the commit [1] that removed it said that it was marked as broken with rsync 3.1.3. If there is a newer compatible version of that patch around somewhere we could use that. Rainer [1] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/3b08efaebe3b7413093b981f2f4ad661d27cffac#diff-c915c59a1e788fdf85b0d74e8116b961R32