rsync - Mar 2008 - Could you make the 2.6.9 source available via http again?

I noticed you've made rsync 3.0.0 available at
http://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0.tar.gz, which is great!

However, until it's upgraded (if ever), the buildroot system I'm using
to build
embedded linux tries to download rsync 2.6.9 from
http://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9.tar.gz, which fails since this file
is no longer available -- even though it's linked from
http://www.samba.org/rsync/!

Could I convince you to make 2.6.9 available again at the above URL?

I realize I could get 2.6.9 by reverse patching from 3.0.0, and could likely get
it from git, but that's not what the buildroot automation wants.

Thanks!
.tom

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 22:56 +0000, Tom May wrote:
> I noticed you've made rsync 3.0.0 available at
> http://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0.tar.gz, which is great!
> 
> However, until it's upgraded (if ever), the buildroot system I'm
using to build
> embedded linux tries to download rsync 2.6.9 from
> http://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9.tar.gz, which fails since this
file
> is no longer available -- even though it's linked from
http://www.samba.org/rsync/!
> 
> Could I convince you to make 2.6.9 available again at the above URL?
> 
> I realize I could get 2.6.9 by reverse patching from 3.0.0, and could
likely get
> it from git, but that's not what the buildroot automation wants.
Tom, the 2.6.9 source package is available at:

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/old-versions/rsync-2.6.9.tar.gz

Wayne, this brings up a good point.  It would be nice if each source
package had a "persistent" URL that worked whether or not the version
is
the latest, e.g.:

?http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/versions/rsync-2.6.9.tar.gz

You could move "old-versions" to "versions" (with a symlink
"old-versions" -> "versions" for compatibility), pile the
3.0.0 files
into "versions", and create symlinks to them
in ??http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/ .  Another approach is to use
some mod_rewrite magic to redirect requests for nonexistent files in
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/ to the appropriate subdirectory.

Matt

Matt McCutchen <matt <at> mattmccutchen.net> writes:
> Tom, the 2.6.9 source package is available at:
> 
> http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/old-versions/rsync-2.6.9.tar.gz
Yes, it is, thanks Matt.  Yesterday I had somehow found an ftp url:

ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/rsync/old-versions

but the directory appeared to be empty, whereas today it appears to be fully
populated.  Maybe something just went slightly awry when I tried to look at it.

.tom

Tom May wrote:
> I noticed you've made rsync 3.0.0 available at
> http://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-3.0.0.tar.gz, which is great!
> 
> However, until it's upgraded (if ever), the buildroot system I'm
> using to build embedded linux tries to download rsync 2.6.9 from
> http://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9.tar.gz, which fails since
> this file is no longer available -- even though it's linked from
> http://www.samba.org/rsync/!
Also, small note, until rsync-3.0.0 has a threads patch like 2.6.x, it
can't be used with some embedded Linux systems.

-- Jamie