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Date:      Fri, 14 Oct 2016 08:01:08 +0200
From:      Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de>
To:        Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alternatives to rsync
Message-ID:  <DE4C7D02-DA8C-4202-AE44-7D243A07303D@lastsummer.de>
In-Reply-To: <20161014075400.5e83eef59600d6c58b885276@yahoo.es>
References:  <0F5C36816EB64D09B42932E21FBC6269@RIVENDELL> <68b5981d-6155-575d-6929-813f116c8419@ShaneWare.Biz> <20161013222603.GD20041@eureka.lemis.com> <20161014075400.5e83eef59600d6c58b885276@yahoo.es>

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> On 14 Oct 2016, at 7:54 AM, Eduardo Morras via freebsd-ports =
<freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> Sorry for commenting on this reply to Greg to answer Shane Ambler, I
> joined maillist today.
>=20
> On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:26:03 +1100
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>> On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 18:13:39 +1030, Shane Ambler wrote:
>>> On 13/10/2016 15:09, reko.turja--- via freebsd-ports wrote:
>>>> One of my users is needing rsync like functionality to transfer
>>>> changed contents of some directories between couple of machines.
>>>> As rsync 3 isn't open source, but GPL3 it's out of question in
>>>> order to keep the system untainted.
>>>>=20
>>>> The software should be relatively lightweight - no fullblown
>>>> mirroring/backup is needed. Also hints how to achieve similar ends
>>>> using maybe tar/ssh might do.
>>>=20
>>> sysutils/cpdup provides similar functionality to rsync and is bsd
>>> licensed.
>=20
> cpdup in ports comes from old matt dillon pages and is version1.18.
> DragonflyBSD has version 1.32 at [1][2] and compiles with low effort =
on
> FreeBSD.

If there is interest in updating the port we should do it.  I can talk
to Matt, see if he is willing to release an updated portable version
with required build fixes (if any).


Cheers,
Franco=



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