new rsync release needed soon?

Wayne Davison wayned at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Jul 31 16:33:01 EST 2002


On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Robert Weber wrote:
> On the subject of needed patches, I just recently completed a patch for
> librsync that fixed the mdfour code to have uint_64 or 2 uint_32's for
> size.  Without this, the checksums on files >512Megs are incorrect.

In order to interoperate with older versions of rsync, wouldn't we need
to continue to generate the incorrect checksums on all but the newest
(freshly bumped up) protocol number?

..wayne..





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