rsync - Mar 2008 - Passed all tests with flying colors on Mac OS X 10.4.11 - synopsis of installation and testing

Awesome work Wayne. I have been following the various threads about  
running rsync 3.0.0 on MacOS X 10.4.11 and wanted to confirm that  
following all the various bits of advice yields a clean running rsync  
(as tested by backup bouncer).

I am running MacOS X 10.4.11 on PPC. The following is a synopsis of  
my installation procedure (as gathered from the various emails in the  
archive) - note that I had trouble with crtimes.diff and went back to  
osx-create-time.diff. Please let me know if I have included anything  
spurious or missed something critical (though I am pleased that  
everything worked)...

I downloaded the source (3.0.0 release) and the patches (as posted on  
the front page as of this morning). I then added the patch Wayne  
provided called fileflags-fixes.diff (not in the folder when I  
downloaded it anyway)

patch -p1 < patches/osx-create-time.diff
    patch -p1 < patches/fileflags.diff
    patch -p1 < patches/fileflags-fixes.diff
    ./prepare-source (spurious? it did not seem to do anything...)
    patch -p1 < patches/backup-dir-dels.diff
    ./configure
    make
    make test
    sudo make install

I then used backup bouncer to test the installation:

cd into backup bouncer folder
./bbouncer create-vol Src
./bbouncer create-vol Dst
./bbouncer create /Volumes/Src
sudo rsync -aHAX --force-change /Volumes/Dst/ /Volumes/Src/
Finally, I ran the tests

./bbouncer verify -d /Volumes/Src /Volumes/Dst
Verifying:    basic-permissions ... ok
Verifying:           timestamps ...
    Sub-test:    modification time ... ok
ok
Verifying:             symlinks ... ok
Verifying:    symlink-ownership ... ok
Verifying:            hardlinks ... ok
Verifying:       resource-forks ... ok
Verifying:         finder-flags ... ok
Verifying:         finder-locks ... ok
Verifying:        creation-date ... ok
Verifying:            bsd-flags ... ok
Verifying:       extended-attrs ...
    Sub-test:             on files ... ok
    Sub-test:       on directories ... ok
    Sub-test:          on symlinks ... ok
ok
Verifying: access-control-lists ...
    Sub-test:             on files ... ok
    Sub-test:              on dirs ... ok
ok
Verifying:                 fifo ... ok
Verifying:              devices ... ok
Verifying:          combo-tests ...
    Sub-test:  xattrs + rsrc forks ... ok
    Sub-test:     lots of metadata ... ok
ok
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Everything looks great. Thanks to Wayne and all those who have tested  
and refined this. I confess I am one of the myriad freeloaders who  
have been sitting back waiting for all of you to do the heavy  
lifting. I am a frequent beta tester on many open source projects,  
but I just don't have the guts to participate in such testing on a  
backup utility/app. So, I am thrilled to have a fully functional,  
modern, backup app for my Mac without having gone through the  
heartaches inherent in participating in the testing.

Cheers,

Rob
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> I am running MacOS X 10.4.11 on PPC. The following is a synopsis of  
> my installation procedure (as gathered from the various emails in  
> the archive) - note that I had trouble with crtimes.diff and went  
> back to osx-create-time.diff. Please let me know if I have included  
> anything spurious or missed something critical (though I am pleased  
> that everything worked)...
I also get perfect results on 3.0.0 with both MacOS X 10.4.11 on PPC  
and MacOS X 10.5.2 on Intel, using fileflags.diff, crtimes.diff and  
Wayne's new fileflags-fixes.diff.

I find it interesting that you have had no luck with crtimes.diff.   
Could you post your results?  Are you applying the patches in the  
right order (that is, fileflags.diff followed by crtimes.diff, not  
vice versa)?

I suspect the backup-dir-dels.diff patch is not strictly necessary,  
unless you actually want the functionality (as many of us do).

./prepare-source may or may not do anything, depending which source  
version you're using.

Tony M.