rsync announce - Mar 2002 - rsync 2.5.4 released

A new version of rsync has been released:


rsync 2.5.4 (13 March 2002)

  "Imitation lizard skin"

  BUG FIXES:

    * Additional fix for zlib double-free bug.  (Martin Pool, Andrew
      Tridgell) (CVE CAN-2002-0059)
 
  ENHANCEMENTS:

    * Merge in changes from zlib 1.1.3 to zlib 1.1.4.  (Jos Backus)
      (Note that rsync still uses a custom version of zlib; you can
      not just link against a system library.  See zlib/README.rsync)

    * Additional test cases for --compress.  (Martin Pool)


rsync source code can be downloaded from 
 
   http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/
   ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/rsync/
 
and numerous mirror sites.
 
GPG detached signature files are present on the server for all new
versions.  To be sure of the origin of a package before installation,
please run the command
 
  gpg --verify rsync-2.5.4.tar.gz.sig
 
in the directory containing both the .tar.gz and signature files.

-- 
Martin

The rsync.spec file within the rsync tar package is still broken, so here's
a working rsync.spec file.

Simply (as root) copy rsync-2.5.4.tar.gz into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES then
run "rpm -ba rsync.spec" to produce rsync-2.5.4-1.i386.rpm


-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar

Information Security Manager
Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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Summary: Program for efficient remote updates of files.
Name: rsync
Version: 2.5.4
Release: 1
Copyright: GPL
Group: Applications/Networking
Source:	ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/rsync/rsync-%{version}.tar.gz
URL: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
Packager: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.anu.edu.au>
BuildRoot: /tmp/rsync

%description
rsync is a replacement for rcp that has many more features.

rsync uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for
bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the
differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both
sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand.

A technical report describing the rsync algorithm is included with
this package. 

%changelog
* Mon Sep 11 2000 John H Terpstra <jht@turbolinux.com>
  Changed target paths to be Linux Standards Base compliant

* Mon Jan 25 1999 Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de>
  quoted RPM_OPT_FLAGS for the sake of robustness  
* Mon May 18 1998 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.anu.edu.au>
  reworked for auto-building when I release rsync (tridge@samba.anu.edu.au)

* Sat May 16 1998 John H Terpstra <jht@aquasoft.com.au>
  Upgraded to Rsync 2.0.6
    -new feature anonymous rsync

* Mon Apr  6 1998 Douglas N. Arnold <dna@math.psu.edu>

Upgrade to rsync version 1.7.2.

* Sun Mar  1 1998 Douglas N. Arnold <dna@math.psu.edu>

Built 1.6.9-1 based on the 1.6.3-2 spec file of John A. Martin.
Changes from 1.6.3-2 packaging: added latex and dvips commands
to create tech_report.ps.

* Mon Aug 25 1997 John A. Martin <jam@jamux.com>

Built 1.6.3-2 after finding no rsync-1.6.3-1.src.rpm although there
was an ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/alpha/rsync-1.6.3-1.alpha.rpm
showing no packager nor signature but giving 
"Source RPM: rsync-1.6.3-1.src.rpm".

Changes from 1.6.2-1 packaging: added '$RPM_OPT_FLAGS' to make, strip
to '%build', removed '%prefix'.

* Thu Apr 10 1997 Michael De La Rue <miked@ed.ac.uk>

rsync-1.6.2-1 packaged.  (This entry by jam to credit Michael for the
previous package(s).)

%prep
%setup

%build
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
make CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"
strip rsync

%install
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/{bin,share/man/{man1,man5}}
install -m755 rsync $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin
install -m644 rsync.1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/man/man1
install -m644 rsyncd.conf.5 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/man/man5

%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

%files
%attr(-,root,root) /usr/bin/rsync
%attr(-,root,root) /usr/share/man/man1/rsync.1*
%attr(-,root,root) /usr/share/man/man5/rsyncd.conf.5*
%attr(-,root,root) %doc tech_report.tex
%attr(-,root,root) %doc README
%attr(-,root,root) %doc COPYING