rsync announce - Oct 2007 - Rsync 3.0.0pre2 released

I've just released rsync 3.0.0pre2, the second pre-release version for
the upcoming 3.0.0 release.

Please test this out and email the rsync mailing list with any
questions, comments, bug reports, etc.  Thanks!

You can download the tar file and its signature from here:

    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0pre2.tar.gz
    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0pre2.tar.gz.asc

This version has the following fixes since pre1 was released:

 - Fixed the listing of directories with --list-only, --relative, and
   --no-recursive.  This fix involved getting rid of an old "FIXME" in
   the code where a non-recursive listing would list directories on
   the server using -r and an extra exclude to drop the content of
   sub-directories (which could fail to work if the user had their
   own excludes).  The code now sends the --dirs option for a
   non-recursive listing.

 - Fixed a delete glitch with --relative, --no-recursive, --dirs, and
   subdirectories.

 - Improve the internal flagging of implied directories and those that
   were sent with and without content.

 - Fixed a problem with the remote charset arg when using the new
   --iconv=LOCAL_CHARSET,REMOTE_CHARSET option.

 - Fixed a build glitch for some strange iconv setups.

 - Fixed a problem in the AIX ACL code.

 - Fixed a build glitch for some pre-processors that didn't like an
   #if conditional inside a macro.

 - Improved patches/dynamic-hash.diff (which is one solution that
   should help to speed up the transfer of really large files) so that
   it doesn't also slow down the transfer of normal-sized files.

To see a full summary of the changes since 2.6.9, visit this link:

    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0pre2-NEWS

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On 10/11/07, Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>
wrote:
> I've just released rsync 3.0.0pre2, the second pre-release version for
> the upcoming 3.0.0 release.
I have built RPMs (source and i386 binary) for rsync 3.0.0pre2:

http://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/#rsync-packages

Matt

On Thu 11 Oct 2007, Wayne Davison wrote:
> I've just released rsync 3.0.0pre2, the second pre-release version for
> the upcoming 3.0.0 release.
> 
> Please test this out and email the rsync mailing list with any
> questions, comments, bug reports, etc.  Thanks!
One thing that's not 100% clear for me: in the NEWS file you state:

 - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists.  This is
   an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even
   supports OS X ACLs.  (If you need to have backward compatibility with
   old, patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches
   dir.)

Does applying the acls.diff patch influence the workings of the new
"standard" --acls option, when _not_ talking to an old patched
version?
If it doesn't harm the standard working, then it's probably a good idea
for the Debian packaged version to apply the diff at least until this
version of rsync is contained in an official new release of Debian...


Paul Slootman