> On 14 Oct 2016, at 7:54 AM, Eduardo Morras via freebsd-ports > <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Sorry for commenting on this reply to Greg to answer Shane Ambler, I > joined maillist today. > > On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:26:03 +1100 > Greg 'groggy' Lehey <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> 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. >>>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> sysutils/cpdup provides similar functionality to rsync and is bsd >>> licensed. > > 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
