As officially I'm the mantainer of cygwin's rsync package I feel I must add something.. 0=)
> a) rsync binaries for win32/cygwin are now available from the binaries > section of the rsync web pages, maintained by someone at redhat I think Maintained by me, I don't work for redhat, and sadly I have a bit too little time to maintain it as I should... > b) the version attached is so old that you really shouldn't attempt to use it. > Get the latest CVS version and add Wayne Davison's patches (see > mailing list archives), in particular for use with Windoze systems, > then compile it yourself with cygwin ...but not so little not to compile it with Wayne's patches (actual patch is the latest anti-hang available at the date of the release of cygwin's rsync-2.4.6-2 package) ;-) If there's some patch that I missed (I read this mailing list since when I began to mantain that package, but reading only headers of most messages maybe I missed something...) please point it to me and I'll release a new verison shortly =) Please note that I'm not an "expert programmer" of rsync, just a person that likes and uses it (and wants maybe to become such an expert, btw): in cygwin one package can't exist in the distribution if there's not a mantainer... so I hope that the effort I put in it is not wasted, even if it's maybe not enough... [I've got a bit of guild for that eheh] > c) it's easy to compile under cygwin, and cygwin is easy to install, so I > strongly recommend doing that That's true, it compiles out-of-the box. The main problem is that in winsocks if the socket is closed a RST is sent, not flushing the cache. This creates many errors at the end of trasnfer, especially in the daemon mode (which is not addressed by the patch I used, I bet). > d) also install openssh which compiles cleanly under cygwin and is much > more reliable than the ssh that is attached here Compiles cleanly and is available as a binary. If anyone wants to ask some more question.. feel free, even if I don't know nothing "special" about it, as I said I had not had the time to completely study and understand rsync source... C ya, Lapo -- Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796)
