1 Summary: Program for efficient remote updates of files.
6 Group: Applications/Networking
7 Source: ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/rsync/rsync-2.0.10.tar.gz
8 URL: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
9 Packager: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.anu.edu.au>
13 rsync is a replacement for rcp that has many more features.
15 rsync uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for
16 bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the
17 differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both
18 sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand.
20 A technical report describing the rsync algorithm is included with
24 * Mon May 18 1998 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.anu.edu.au>
25 reworked for auto-building when I release rsync (tridge@samba.anu.edu.au)
27 * Sat May 16 1998 John H Terpstra <jht@aquasoft.com.au>
28 Upgraded to Rsync 2.0.6
29 -new feature anonymous rsync
31 * Mon Apr 6 1998 Douglas N. Arnold <dna@math.psu.edu>
33 Upgrade to rsync version 1.7.2.
35 * Sun Mar 1 1998 Douglas N. Arnold <dna@math.psu.edu>
37 Built 1.6.9-1 based on the 1.6.3-2 spec file of John A. Martin.
38 Changes from 1.6.3-2 packaging: added latex and dvips commands
39 to create tech_report.ps.
41 * Mon Aug 25 1997 John A. Martin <jam@jamux.com>
43 Built 1.6.3-2 after finding no rsync-1.6.3-1.src.rpm although there
44 was an ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/alpha/rsync-1.6.3-1.alpha.rpm
45 showing no packager nor signature but giving
46 "Source RPM: rsync-1.6.3-1.src.rpm".
48 Changes from 1.6.2-1 packaging: added '$RPM_OPT_FLAGS' to make, strip
49 to '%build', removed '%prefix'.
51 * Thu Apr 10 1997 Michael De La Rue <miked@ed.ac.uk>
53 rsync-1.6.2-1 packaged. (This entry by jam to credit Michael for the
60 ./configure --prefix=/usr
61 make CFLAGS=$RPM_OPT_FLAGS
65 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/{bin,man/{man1,man5}}
66 install -m755 rsync $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin
67 install -m644 rsync.1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/man/man1
68 install -m644 rsyncd.conf.5 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/man/man5
71 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
74 %attr(-,root,root) /usr/bin/rsync
75 %attr(-,root,root) /usr/man/man1/rsync.1
76 %attr(-,root,root) /usr/man/man5/rsyncd.conf.5
77 %attr(-,root,root) %doc tech_report.tex
78 %attr(-,root,root) %doc README
79 %attr(-,root,root) %doc COPYING