rsync - Apr 2005 - Backward compatibility

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The latest version of rsync apparently can't talk to version 2.5
clients. When I tried connecting, I got an error message that the client
needed to be upgraded to use more modern protocol.

Was this intentional? As I can't change the version of rsync on the
client side, I had to downgrade my version of rsync to connect to them.

- ---Michael
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:10:42AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite
wrote:
> The latest version of rsync apparently can't talk to version 2.5
> clients. When I tried connecting, I got an error message that the client
> needed to be upgraded to use more modern protocol.
There should be no problem connecting with version 2.5.0.  The latest
rsync fully supports talking to versions back to version 2.3.0 (protocol
20) but outputs a *warning* about any version older than 2.5.0 (protocol
25).  If you're getting a warning for an rsync that identifies itself as
2.5, it must not even be the released version of 2.5.0, since no warning
would be generated for that rsync.  Getting a warning doesn't prevent
rsync from working, but a fatal error is generated for versions older
than 2.3.0.

..wayne..