Packages for rsync 2.6.8 with ACLs

Andrew Gideon c182driver9 at gideon.org
Fri Aug 4 22:33:50 GMT 2006


On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:19:53 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:

>> First of all, the patch places sysacls.[hc] one directory too high.
>> These need to be in the libs directory, lest 'make' will fail.
> 
> This means that you didn't use a -p option to patch -- you should use
> either -p1 (modern patches) or -p0 (older patches).

Oh.  I didn't see this mentioned anywhere.

>> More importantly: when I build on CentOS 4 or Fedora Core 5, configure
>> thinks that ACLs are not available (despite telling configure
>> "--with-acl-support").
> 
> I've never seen that myself.

I found out why, as I wrote via Bugzilla.  At least 2.6 linuxes require
the xaddrs patch.  I've not tried on a 2.4 (but I will as I'm curious). 
Solaris does not require the xaddrs patch.

	- Andrew



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