rsync - Jan 2025 - new release 3.4.0 - critical security release

sorry about the prefix changes in rsync-patches. We're going to be dropping
the whole rsync-patches system soon anyway, as it really isn't working
well. It was supposed to be a staging area where users would test the
patches before being considered for the main release, but we haven't really
received any feedback on the patches, so not serving a useful purpose now.
I'll probably stop updating it for the next release.


On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 08:57, Ryan Carsten Schmidt <rsync at
ryandesign.com>
wrote:
> The patches within the rsync-patches-3.4.0.tar.gz archive seem to contain
> new unnecessary hunks that change the prefix from /usr to /usr/local. This
> was not the case in 3.3.0.
>
> I use the fileflags.diff patch in the MacPorts build of rsync, and with
> the 3.4.0 version of this patch, it does not build:
>
> t_stub.c:34:14: error: redefinition of 'module_dirlen' with a
different
> type: 'unsigned int' vs 'int'
> unsigned int module_dirlen = 0;
>              ^
> t_stub.c:31:5: note: previous definition is here
> int module_dirlen = 0;
>     ^
> 1 error generated.
>
>
>
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Wrote on Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:34:10 +1100:
> sorry about the prefix changes in rsync-patches. We're going to be
dropping
> the whole rsync-patches system soon anyway, as it really isn't working
> well. It was supposed to be a staging area where users would test the
> patches before being considered for the main release, but we haven't
really
> received any feedback on the patches, so not serving a useful purpose now.
> I'll probably stop updating it for the next release.
There had been no commits on the github site
https://github.com/WayneD/rsync-patches.git since 04-2024, so I
thought it was already defunct, maybe the development happens
elswewhere?  I was surprised to hear of the tarball.

fwiw I've been a staple consumer of clone-dest direct-io downdate
omit-dir-changes, at least  until 3.3.0.
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 08:57, Ryan Carsten Schmidt <rsync at
ryandesign.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The patches within the rsync-patches-3.4.0.tar.gz archive seem to
contain
>> new unnecessary hunks that change the prefix from /usr to /usr/local.
This
>> was not the case in 3.3.0.