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• Binary Builds for alpha10

  Binary install packages have been put up for the alpha10 release. Packages are available under the alpha10 release for: - Sparc Solaris 2.8+ pkg - Linux x86 .rpm - HPUX HPUX 11.0/1ii depot Binary packages for further releases will be provided at a later date.

  posted by hoffman_milo 1383 days ago

• rdist rdist 7.0.0-alpha10 file released: rdist7_7.0.0_alpha10.sparc_solaris8.pkg

  Change log since 6.1.15 given by Magnicomp.com when the stopped development and released this final version: * Seperate protocol commands into protocmds.[hc] * Improve handling of protocol debug output. * Fix null deref core dump bug when debug enabled under some circumstance. * Fix qsort() declaration. * Only run *special on symlinks if the links are actually updated. * Changes to support BSD/OS mount info. (James Tanis) * Increase MAXEARGS to 10240. * Disable uid caching in getusername() because it's broken. (karl@gnu.org) * Use dynamic alloc of memory for user environment vars. (David J. MacKenzie) * Create relative symlink if hardlink fails on AFS. (Isaac.Hollander) * Handle env vars for *special which have blanks in their name. (Isaac Hollander) * Add removefile() debugging info. * Use remote pathnames instead of target names in messages. * Improve hardlink handling performance. (John Heidemann) * Report remote pathnames instead of local pathnames if different. * Block SIGCHLD whenever working with the childlist. (Philip A. Guenther) * Close the fds to the other children when spawned. (Philip A. Guenther) * Safer handling of tmp files via mkstemp(). * Increase stack of target directories to 128 from 32. * Add BSD/OS 4.0 support. (Chris P. Ross) * Add support for ELF + AOUT ala BSD/OS 4.0. (Chris P. Ross) * Fix problem with older SSH clients + password prompting not working. * Remove unclean extern buf[]. (Todd C. Miller) * Fix bug causing a CPU loop if dist'ing a file whose parent dir doesn't exist on the target machine. (Todd C. Miller) * Speed up parsing of Distfiles. (Giray Pultar) * New "-o compress": Compress files on fly. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Fix "rdist -c . localhost:../dst" bug. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Fix for left stray rdista* files when it could not unlink the target. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Fix general command line argument passing problems. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Better handling of filenames with "wierd" chars in them via vis(3). (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Don't fail when remote files are sockets, pipes, block or character special files. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Use snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid possible overflow problems. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Don't update symlinks if the point to the right place. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * New "-o history": maintain versions of files via name;XXX where XXX is 0 <= XXX <= 999 (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * New "-o updateperm": Don't send the whole file if only ownership, group and mode have been changed (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * New "-o defowner[=name]": If a user is not found in the remote passwd file, use the name specified or default to "bin". (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * New "-o defgroup[=name]": If a group is not found in the remote group file, use the name specified or default to "bin". (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Pick options from environment variable RDIST_OPTIONS (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Run the rsh command found in the variable RDIST_RSH (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * On machines that support LCHOWN, LCHMOD, use them. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Use POSIX regex() in compiled form for faster execution. <neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca> * Use fsync() to insure newly created files are sync'ed to disk. <satmb@channing.harvard.edu> * Fix bug in caching of numeric owner/group. <Todd.Miller@cs.colorado.edu> * Fix problem with directories containing embedded relative paths. <aab@aab.cc.purdue.edu> * Add better signal function declaration. * Add "-o followlinks" option. <dwagon@sysadmin.com.au> * Increase number of env variables from 40 to 1024. * rmdir failure is no longer fatal to work when removing running programs. <neal@ctd.comsat.com> * rdist.man: Add missing 'verbose' msg level. * rdist.man: Fix various formating typos. * Use mkstemp() for safer temporary file creates. * Fix file descriptor leak, especially with ssh. <guenther@gac.edu> * Better protection against rdist children corruption. <guenther@gac.edu> * unsigned GID_T fix. <guenther@gac.edu> * Linux DIR fix. <guenther@gac.edu> * Run "special" and "specialcmd" whenever a directory is updated. patl@lcs.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti)

  posted 1384 days ago

• File released: /rdist/rdist 7.0.0-alpha10/rdist7_7.0.0_alpha10.sparc_solaris8.pkg

  posted 1384 days ago

• rdist rdist 7.0.0-alpha10 file released: rdist7_7.0.0_alpha10.hpux11.depot

  Change log since 6.1.15 given by Magnicomp.com when the stopped development and released this final version: * Seperate protocol commands into protocmds.[hc] * Improve handling of protocol debug output. * Fix null deref core dump bug when debug enabled under some circumstance. * Fix qsort() declaration. * Only run *special on symlinks if the links are actually updated. * Changes to support BSD/OS mount info. (James Tanis) * Increase MAXEARGS to 10240. * Disable uid caching in getusername() because it's broken. (karl@gnu.org) * Use dynamic alloc of memory for user environment vars. (David J. MacKenzie) * Create relative symlink if hardlink fails on AFS. (Isaac.Hollander) * Handle env vars for *special which have blanks in their name. (Isaac Hollander) * Add removefile() debugging info. * Use remote pathnames instead of target names in messages. * Improve hardlink handling performance. (John Heidemann) * Report remote pathnames instead of local pathnames if different. * Block SIGCHLD whenever working with the childlist. (Philip A. Guenther) * Close the fds to the other children when spawned. (Philip A. Guenther) * Safer handling of tmp files via mkstemp(). * Increase stack of target directories to 128 from 32. * Add BSD/OS 4.0 support. (Chris P. Ross) * Add support for ELF + AOUT ala BSD/OS 4.0. (Chris P. Ross) * Fix problem with older SSH clients + password prompting not working. * Remove unclean extern buf[]. (Todd C. Miller) * Fix bug causing a CPU loop if dist'ing a file whose parent dir doesn't exist on the target machine. (Todd C. Miller) * Speed up parsing of Distfiles. (Giray Pultar) * New "-o compress": Compress files on fly. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Fix "rdist -c . localhost:../dst" bug. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Fix for left stray rdista* files when it could not unlink the target. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Fix general command line argument passing problems. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Better handling of filenames with "wierd" chars in them via vis(3). (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Don't fail when remote files are sockets, pipes, block or character special files. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Use snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid possible overflow problems. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Don't update symlinks if the point to the right place. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * New "-o history": maintain versions of files via name;XXX where XXX is 0 <= XXX <= 999 (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * New "-o updateperm": Don't send the whole file if only ownership, group and mode have been changed (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * New "-o defowner[=name]": If a user is not found in the remote passwd file, use the name specified or default to "bin". (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * New "-o defgroup[=name]": If a group is not found in the remote group file, use the name specified or default to "bin". (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Pick options from environment variable RDIST_OPTIONS (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Run the rsh command found in the variable RDIST_RSH (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * On machines that support LCHOWN, LCHMOD, use them. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Use POSIX regex() in compiled form for faster execution. <neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca> * Use fsync() to insure newly created files are sync'ed to disk. <satmb@channing.harvard.edu> * Fix bug in caching of numeric owner/group. <Todd.Miller@cs.colorado.edu> * Fix problem with directories containing embedded relative paths. <aab@aab.cc.purdue.edu> * Add better signal function declaration. * Add "-o followlinks" option. <dwagon@sysadmin.com.au> * Increase number of env variables from 40 to 1024. * rmdir failure is no longer fatal to work when removing running programs. <neal@ctd.comsat.com> * rdist.man: Add missing 'verbose' msg level. * rdist.man: Fix various formating typos. * Use mkstemp() for safer temporary file creates. * Fix file descriptor leak, especially with ssh. <guenther@gac.edu> * Better protection against rdist children corruption. <guenther@gac.edu> * unsigned GID_T fix. <guenther@gac.edu> * Linux DIR fix. <guenther@gac.edu> * Run "special" and "specialcmd" whenever a directory is updated. patl@lcs.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti)

  posted 1384 days ago

• File released: /rdist/rdist 7.0.0-alpha10/rdist7_7.0.0_alpha10.hpux11.depot

  posted 1384 days ago

• rdist rdist 7.0.0-alpha10 file released: rdist7-7.0.0-alpha10.i386.rpm

  Change log since 6.1.15 given by Magnicomp.com when the stopped development and released this final version: * Seperate protocol commands into protocmds.[hc] * Improve handling of protocol debug output. * Fix null deref core dump bug when debug enabled under some circumstance. * Fix qsort() declaration. * Only run *special on symlinks if the links are actually updated. * Changes to support BSD/OS mount info. (James Tanis) * Increase MAXEARGS to 10240. * Disable uid caching in getusername() because it's broken. (karl@gnu.org) * Use dynamic alloc of memory for user environment vars. (David J. MacKenzie) * Create relative symlink if hardlink fails on AFS. (Isaac.Hollander) * Handle env vars for *special which have blanks in their name. (Isaac Hollander) * Add removefile() debugging info. * Use remote pathnames instead of target names in messages. * Improve hardlink handling performance. (John Heidemann) * Report remote pathnames instead of local pathnames if different. * Block SIGCHLD whenever working with the childlist. (Philip A. Guenther) * Close the fds to the other children when spawned. (Philip A. Guenther) * Safer handling of tmp files via mkstemp(). * Increase stack of target directories to 128 from 32. * Add BSD/OS 4.0 support. (Chris P. Ross) * Add support for ELF + AOUT ala BSD/OS 4.0. (Chris P. Ross) * Fix problem with older SSH clients + password prompting not working. * Remove unclean extern buf[]. (Todd C. Miller) * Fix bug causing a CPU loop if dist'ing a file whose parent dir doesn't exist on the target machine. (Todd C. Miller) * Speed up parsing of Distfiles. (Giray Pultar) * New "-o compress": Compress files on fly. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Fix "rdist -c . localhost:../dst" bug. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Fix for left stray rdista* files when it could not unlink the target. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Fix general command line argument passing problems. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Better handling of filenames with "wierd" chars in them via vis(3). (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Don't fail when remote files are sockets, pipes, block or character special files. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Use snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid possible overflow problems. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Don't update symlinks if the point to the right place. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * New "-o history": maintain versions of files via name;XXX where XXX is 0 <= XXX <= 999 (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * New "-o updateperm": Don't send the whole file if only ownership, group and mode have been changed (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * New "-o defowner[=name]": If a user is not found in the remote passwd file, use the name specified or default to "bin". (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * New "-o defgroup[=name]": If a group is not found in the remote group file, use the name specified or default to "bin". (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Pick options from environment variable RDIST_OPTIONS (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Run the rsh command found in the variable RDIST_RSH (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * On machines that support LCHOWN, LCHMOD, use them. (Christos Zoulas+Geir Johannessen) * Use POSIX regex() in compiled form for faster execution. <neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca> * Use fsync() to insure newly created files are sync'ed to disk. <satmb@channing.harvard.edu> * Fix bug in caching of numeric owner/group. <Todd.Miller@cs.colorado.edu> * Fix problem with directories containing embedded relative paths. <aab@aab.cc.purdue.edu> * Add better signal function declaration. * Add "-o followlinks" option. <dwagon@sysadmin.com.au> * Increase number of env variables from 40 to 1024. * rmdir failure is no longer fatal to work when removing running programs. <neal@ctd.comsat.com> * rdist.man: Add missing 'verbose' msg level. * rdist.man: Fix various formating typos. * Use mkstemp() for safer temporary file creates. * Fix file descriptor leak, especially with ssh. <guenther@gac.edu> * Better protection against rdist children corruption. <guenther@gac.edu> * unsigned GID_T fix. <guenther@gac.edu> * Linux DIR fix. <guenther@gac.edu> * Run "special" and "specialcmd" whenever a directory is updated. patl@lcs.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti)

  posted 1384 days ago

• File released: /rdist/rdist 7.0.0-alpha10/rdist7-7.0.0-alpha10.i386.rpm

  posted 1384 days ago

• File released: /rdist/rdist 7.0.0-alpha10/rdist-7.0.0-alpha10.tar.gz

  posted 1392 days ago

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  lqueryvg commented on the support for remote source files and local targets artifact

  posted by lqueryvg 1423 days ago

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  posted by nobody 1423 days ago