./net/rsync, Network file distribution/synchronisation utility

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Branch: pkgsrc-2011Q1, Version: 3.0.8, Package name: rsync-3.0.8, Maintainer: tron

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.
This makes rsync a good remote file distribution/synchronisation utility
in a dialup PPP/SLIP environment.

Note: it requires rsync on the destination machine.

There is a Computer Science Technical Report on the rsync algorithm
included in the distribution, and is also available as
ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/rsync/tech_report.ps


Required to build:
[lang/perl5]

Master sites: (Expand)

SHA1: 10e80173c7e9ed8b8a4dc9e8fdab08402da5f08d
RMD160: f00c5ba42e33a1745976c9af5e770c220a6fa4a6
Filesize: 772.189 KB

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   2011-04-11 15:34:11 by Matthias Scheler | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
Pullup ticket #3406 - requested by taca
net/rsync: security update

Revisions pulled up:
- net/rsync/Makefile                                            1.85
- net/rsync/distinfo                                            1.36

---
   Module Name:	pkgsrc
   Committed By:	taca
   Date:		Fri Apr  8 12:36:24 UTC 2011

   Modified Files:
   	pkgsrc/net/rsync: Makefile distinfo

   Log message:
   Update rsync package to 3.0.8.

   NEWS for rsync 3.0.8 (26 Mar 2011)
   Protocol: 30 (unchanged)
   Changes since 3.0.7:

     BUG FIXES:

       - Fixed two buffer-overflow issues: one where a directory path that is
         exactly MAXPATHLEN was not handled correctly, and one handling a
         --backup-dir that is extra extra large.

       - Fixed a data-corruption issue when preserving hard-links without
         preserving file ownership, and doing deletions either before or during
         the transfer (CVE-2011-1097).  This fixes some assert errors in the
         hard-linking code, and some potential failed checksums (via -c) that
         should have matched.

       - Fixed a potential crash when an rsync daemon has a filter/exclude list
         and the transfer is using ACLs or xattrs.

       - Fixed a hang if a really large file is being processed by an rsync that
         can't handle 64-bit numbers.  Rsync will now complain about the file
         being too big and skip it.

       - For devices and special files, we now avoid gathering useless ACL and/or
         xattr information for files that aren't being copied.  (The un-copied
         files are still put into the file list, but there's no need to gather
         data that is not going to be used.)  This ensures that if the user uses
         --no-D, that rsync can't possibly complain about being unable to gather
         extended information from special files that are in the file list (but
         not in the transfer).

       - Properly handle requesting remote filenames that start with a dash.  This
         avoids a potential error where a filename could be interpreted as a
         (usually invalid) option.

       - Fixed a bug in the comparing of upper-case letters in file suffixes for
         --skip-compress.

       - If an rsync daemon has a module configured without a path setting, rsync
         will now disallow access to that module.

       - If the destination arg is an empty string, it will be treated as a
         reference to the current directory (as 2.x used to do).

       - If rsync was compiled with a newer time-setting function (such as
         lutimes), rsync will fall-back to an older function (such as utimes) on a
         system where the newer function is not around.  This helps to make the
         rsync binary more portable in mixed-OS-release situations.

       - Fixed a batch-file writing bug that would not write out the full set of
         compatibility flags that the transfer was using.  This fixes a potential
         protocol problem for a batch file that contains a sender-side I/O error:
         it would have been sent in a way that the batch-reader wasn't expecting.

       - Some improvements to the hard-linking code to ensure that device-number
         hashing is working right, and to supply more information if the hard-link
         code fails.

       - The --inplace code was improved to not search for an impossible checksum
         position.  The quadruple-verbose chunk[N] message will now mention when
         an inplace chunk was handled by a seek rather than a read+write.

       - Improved ACL mask handling, e.g. for Solaris.

       - Fixed a bug that prevented --numeric-ids from disabling the translation
         of user/group IDs for ACLs.

       - Fixed an issue where an xattr and/or ACL transfer that used an alt-dest
         option (e.g. --link-dest) could output an error trying to itemize the
         changes against the alt-dest directory's xattr/ACL info but was instead
         trying to access the not-yet-existing new destination directory.

       - Improved xattr system-error messages to mention the full path to the
         file.

       - The --link-dest checking for identical symlinks now avoids considering
         attribute differences that cannot be changed on the receiver.

       - Avoid trying to read/write xattrs on certain file types for certain OSes.
         Improved configure to set NO_SYMLINK_XATTRS, NO_DEVICE_XATTRS, and/or
         NO_SPECIAL_XATTRS defines in config.h.

       - Improved the unsafe-symlink errors messages.

       - Fixed a bug setting xattrs on new files that aren't user writable.

       - Avoid re-setting xattrs on a hard-linked file w/the same xattrs.

       - Fixed a bug with --fake-super when copying files and dirs that aren't
         user writable.

       - Fixed a bug where a sparse file could have its last sparse block turned
         into a real block when rsync sets the file size (requires ftruncate).

       - If a temp-file name is too long, rsync now avoids truncating the name in
         the middle of adjacent high-bit characters.  This prevents a potential
         filename error if the filesystem doesn't allow a name to contain an
         invalid multi-byte sequence.

       - If a muli-protocol socket connection fails (i.e., when contacting a
         daemon), we now report all the failures, not just the last one.  This
         avoids losing a relevant error (e.g. an IPv4 connection-refused error)
         that happened before the final error (e.g. an IPv6 protocol-not-supported
         error).

       - Generate a transfer error if we try to call chown with a -1 for a uid or
         a gid (which is not settable).

       - Fixed the working of --force when used with --one-file-system.

       - Fix the popt arg parsing so that an option that doesn't take an arg will
         reject an attempt to supply one (can configure --with-included-popt if
         your system's popt library doesn't yet have this fix).

       - A couple minor option tweaks to the support/rrsync script, and also some
         regex changes that make vim highlighting happier.

       - Fixed some issues in the support/mnt-excl script.

       - Various manpage improvements.

     ENHANCEMENTS:

       - Added ".hg/" to the default cvs excludes (see -C & \ 
--cvs-exclude).

     DEVELOPER RELATED:

       - Use lchmod() whenever it is available (not just on symlinks).
       - A couple fixes to the socketpair_tcp() routine.
       - Updated the helper scripts in the packaging subdirectory.
       - Renamed configure.in to configure.ac.
       - Fixed configure's checking for iconv routines for newer OS X versions.
       - Fixed the testsuite/xattrs.test script on OS X.