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@@ -1,114 +1,6 @@ -rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) -*- indented-text -*- +rsync 2.5.1 (sometime in 2001?) - ANNOUNCEMENTS + BUG FIXES: + + * rsync.1 typo fix by Matt Kraai <kraai@debian.org> - * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer. - - NEW FEATURES - - * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/> - - * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. - - * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch - sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos - Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html> - - * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems - including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also - includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the - Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH - portability project, and OpenBSD. - - ENHANCEMENTS - - * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are - included or excluded and why. - - * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more - details. - - * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. - - * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log - file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is - open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log - file to get cleaned out by another process. - - * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing - options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more - consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not - installed on the platform. - - * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit - files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. - - * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. - - * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, - explain that we do it in a secure way. - - * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the - local machine. - - BUG FIXES: - - * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. - - * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. - - * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. - - * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked - to transfer fail to transfer - - * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might - overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an - ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) - - PLATFORMS: - - * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) - - * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf - scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. - - * Platforms thought to work in this release: - - Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc - Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc - Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc - FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc - FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc - FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc - HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc - HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc - IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc - IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc - Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc - NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc - NetBSD Current i386 cc - OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc - OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc - OpenBSD Current i386 cc - RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc - RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++ - RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc - RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc - Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10) - Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc - Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc - Solaris 8 i386 gcc - SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2 - SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2 - i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc - i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc - powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc - i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc - i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc - - TESTING: - - * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a - test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba - build farm. diff --git a/OLDNEWS b/OLDNEWS new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9e572fc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/OLDNEWS @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +rsync 2.5.0 (2001-11-30) + + ANNOUNCEMENTS + + * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer. + + NEW FEATURES + + * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/> + + * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines. + + * Merged UNC rsync+ patch to support creation of standalone patch + sets. By Bert J. Dempsey and Debra Weiss, updated by Jos + Backus. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/i2dsi/unc_rsync+.html> + + * IPv6 support based on a patch from KAME.net, on systems + including modern versions of Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Also + includes IPv6 compatibility functions for old OSs by the + Internet Software Consortium, Paul Vixie, the OpenSSH + portability project, and OpenBSD. + + ENHANCEMENTS + + * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are + included or excluded and why. + + * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more + details. + + * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation. + + * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log + file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is + open when going to sleep on the socket. This allows the log + file to get cleaned out by another process. + + * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing + options. This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more + consistent across platforms. popt is included and built if not + installed on the platform. + + * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit + files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported. + + * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles. + + * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure. If we use mktemp, + explain that we do it in a secure way. + + * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the + local machine. + + BUG FIXES: + + * Fix for various bugs causing rsync to hang. + + * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX. + + * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug. + + * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked + to transfer fail to transfer + + * For log messages containing ridiculously long strings that might + overflow a buffer rsync no longer aborts, but rather prints an + ellipsis at the end of the string. (Patch from Ed Santiago.) + + PLATFORMS: + + * Improved support for UNICOS (tested on Cray T3E and Cray SV1) + + * autoconf2.52 (or later) is now required to rebuild the autoconf + scripts. It is not required to simply build rsync. + + * Platforms thought to work in this release: + + Cray SV1 UNICOS 10.0.0.8 cc + Debian Linux 2.2 UltraSparc gcc + Debian Linux testing/unstable ARM gcc + FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 cc + FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386 cc + FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 cc + HP PA-RISC HP-UX 10.20 gcc + HP PA-RISC HP-UX 11.11 cc + IRIX 6.5 MIPS cc + IRIX 6.5 MIPS gcc + Mac OS X PPC (--disable-ipv6) cc + NetBSD 1.5 i386 gcc + NetBSD Current i386 cc + OpenBSD 2.5 Sparc gcc + OpenBSD 2.9 i386 cc + OpenBSD Current i386 cc + RedHat 6.2 i386 gcc + RedHat 6.2 i386 insure++ + RedHat 7.0 i386 gcc + RedHat 7.1 i386 (Kernel 2.4.10) gcc + Slackware 8.0 i686 (Kernel 2.4.10) + Solaris 8 UltraSparc cc + Solaris 8 UltraSparc gcc + Solaris 8 i386 gcc + SuSE 7.1 i386 gcc2.95.2 + SuSE 7.1 ppc gcc2.95.2 + i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 cc + i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.5 gcc + powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 cc + i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 gcc + i686-unknown-sysv5UnixWare7.1.0 cc + + TESTING: + + * The existing test.sh script by Phil Hands has been merged into a + test framework that works from both "make check" and the Samba + build farm. |