From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Oct 22 12:22:10 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80ABCC1B3D1 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:22:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from land.berklix.org (land.berklix.org [144.76.10.75]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1170A816 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:22:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (pD9FE9EEE.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.254.158.238]) (authenticated bits=128) by land.berklix.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPA id u9MBFDSa040964; Sat, 22 Oct 2016 11:15:13 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id u9MBFA7j065060; Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:15:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id u9MBEkB3089204; Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:14:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Message-Id: <201610221114.u9MBEkB3089204@fire.js.berklix.net> To: reko.turja@liukuma.net, freebsd-ports Subject: Re: Alternatives to rsync From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.eu BSD Unix Linux Consultants, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.eu/free/ X-From: http://www.berklix.eu/~jhs/ In-reply-to: Your message "Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:08:03 +1100." <20161017220803.GL20041@eureka.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:14:46 +0200 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:22:10 -0000 Hi, Reference: > From: "reko.turja--- via freebsd-ports" > Reply-to: reko.turja@liukuma.net > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 07:39:45 +0300 "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. > > 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. > > -Reko I've used use /usr/ports/net/rdist6 for decades, similar to but a big improvement on rdist, rdist was in BSD src/ back I recall in UCB-4.2. Samples: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/Distfile (also called from ./Makefile) http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/home/Distfile http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/scanjet/data/Distfile Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix Sys Eng Consultant Munich Reply below, Prefix '> '. Plain text, No .doc, base64, HTML, quoted-printable. http://berklix.eu/brexit/#stolen_votes