installing rsync-3-0-5 on a Mac

[Mike Bombich]

On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Rob Rye wrote:

> The following note never went through yesterday for some reason:
>
> You probably know all of this already, but for those not familiar with
>    the mysteries of the Unix side of the Mac OS X, allow me to comment
>    here:
>
>
>    Assuming /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH (otherwise you must add it
>    first), there are at least two solutions to the path problem, in  
> which
>    rsync 2.6.9 (in /usr/bin) is in front of rsync 3.0.5 (in /usr/ 
> local/bin)
>
>    1: rename /usr/bin/rsync to /usr/bin/rsync269, so that if you  
> should
>    ever want to downgrade, you just have to change the name back to / 
> usr/
>    bin/rsync and away you go.

I don't think I'd advise this in general.  If someone else has an  
application or script that expects the Apple-shipping version of  
rsync, those apps or scripts will break.  Apple's version and version  
3 have different arguments (-E specifically conflicts).  It's probably  
best -- in general -- to update your $PATH or, even better, explicitly  
indicate a custom $PATH in any scripts that you write to include /usr/ 
local/bin.

This method also avoids any issues with OS updates reinstalling/ 
updating the built-in rsync.

Mike


>
>
>    2: change your $PATH, so that /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin.
>    Then whatever version of rsync, or anything else, you have in /usr/
>    local/bin will be the version of that application that your Mac  
> sees.
>    Personally, I feel more comfortable keeping /usr/bin first in the  
> path
>    and I just always rename the Mac default versions whenever they get
>    reinstalled by an OS update, but there is really nothing wrong with
>    this solution, and it certainly is more permanent.
>
>    Under Leopard (MacOS X 10.5.x) rsync version 2.6.9 is installed by
>    default in /usr/bin. Whenever Apple updates the system and does
>    anything that "updates" rsync it will check if rsync 2.6.9 is  
> present
>    as "/usr/bin/rsync". If it does not find it it will "helpfully"
>    reinstall it for you. Thus, every time Apple "updates" anything  
> with
>    regard to rsync and reinstalls it you have to rename it again, if  
> you
>    use solution 1... which can be a pain in the neck.
>
>
>    --Rob
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 20:21 +0100, Kurt wrote:
>>> > is "rsync --version" reporting the wrong version number, or am I  
>>> to
>>> > stupid to properly install rsync-3-0-5 on a Mac?
>>> >
>>> > Here is what I did:
>>> > download and extract rsync-3-0-5 (btw: why is there an extra  
>>> patches
>>> > folder?)
>>> > in Terminal I ran: ./configure, make, sudo make install
>>> > There was no error message, and the old /usr/local/bin/rsync was
>>> > replaced.
>>> >
>>> > When I now issue "rsync --version" I get:
>>> > rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29
>>> > Copyright (C) 1996-2006 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and  
>>> others.
>>> > <http://rsync.samba.org/>
>>> > Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks,
>>> > batchfiles,
>>> >                inplace, IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit  
>>> internal inums
>>> >
>>> > which is not what I expected.
>>>
>>> Make sure your $PATH is set so that the rsync you installed will be
>>> found first.  When you have this right, "which rsync" should
>>> print /usr/local/bin/rsync .
>>>
>>> --
>>> Matt
>>>
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