rsync - Aug 2001 - rsync 2.4.7pre1 release

Well, here's rsync 2.4.7 preview 1:
  
  rsync://va.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.4.7pre1.tar.bz2
  http://va.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.4.7pre1.tar.bz2

You need bunzip2 to decompress these files:

  http://freshmeat.net/projects/bzip2

The change list is below. 

Please, do try this out and let us know either if it works for you or
if it does not.  We need both kinds of information to judge if it's
ready for release.

This does not contain, but might before the real 2.4.7 release:

 * The rsync+ patches.  (Now merged with the head but not on the main
   branch.)

 * Wayne's updated EOF and nohang patches.  (Look promising but need
   more consideration.)

If you want to try these yourself and vote for or against them then
please do so.

-- 
Martin


rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)

  ANNOUNCEMENTS

    * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.

  NEW FEATURES

    * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>

    * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.

  ENHANCEMENTS

    * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
      included or excluded and why.

    * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
      details.

    * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.

    * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
      file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
      open when going to sleep on the socket.  This allows the log
      file to get cleaned out by another process.

    * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
      options.  This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
      consistent across platforms.  popt is included and built if not
      installed on the platform.

    * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
      files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.

    * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.

    * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure.  If we use mktemp,
      explain that we do it in a secure way.

    * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
        local machine.

  BUG FIXES:

    * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.

    * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.

    * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
      to transfer fail to transfer 

    * Fix --cvs-exclude sigsegv bug.

    * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison.

    * Update to work with autoconf2.50 and 2.13.

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 07:22:38PM +1000, Martin Pool
wrote:
> Well, here's rsync 2.4.7 preview 1:
>   
>   rsync://va.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.4.7pre1.tar.bz2
>   http://va.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.4.7pre1.tar.bz2
> 
Just a note to Linux RPM fans.

Doing "rpm -ta rsync-2.4.7pre1.tar.bz2" should build a nice rpm.
However, on
RH 7.1 it doesn't. I've seen this before - makes me guess the .spec file
was
for a Mandrake system? (they do something funny with man pages that breaks
builds on RH systems)

Anyway, here's a patched version that fixes these faults. Just do a
"rpm -ba
rsync.spec" and/or replace the
rsync-2.4.7pre1/packaging/redhat/5.0/rsync.spec file.


-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar

Unix/Special Projects, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Martin Pool wrote:
>  BUG FIXES:
>
>      * Fix --cvs-exclude sigsegv bug.
FYI:  this bug was introducted in the CVS version, so it was not present
in 2.4.6.

..wayne..

On 11 Aug 2001, Phil Howard <phil-rsync@ipal.net>
wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> >  * Wayne's updated EOF and nohang patches.  (Look promising but
need
> >    more consideration.)
> 
> I cannot try 2.4.7-pre1 without the nohang patch.  I suppose I can
> apply his patch to 2.4.7-pre1 and run it that way.  But the hang
> bug is virtually a show stopper for the kinds of things I'm trying
> to use rsync for.  Would testing 2.4.7-pre1 with the nohang patch
> added on be a useful test for you?  What causes the hang anyway?
pre2 will have Wayne's patch.  We'll see how that works.
> Actually there is another show stopper looming.  Rsync loads and
> transfers the entire file tree all at once.
Yes, it's a problem.  The architectural changes are too large to do in
this release.  (If you have a patch, though...)  It will have to wait
for either 2.5.0, or 3.0.

--
Martin