Sorry for commenting on this reply to Greg to answer Shane Ambler, I joined maillist today.
On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:26:03 +1100 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 18:13:39 +1030, Shane Ambler wrote: > > On 13/10/2016 15:09, reko.turja--- via freebsd-ports wrote: > >> One of my users is needing rsync like functionality to transfer > >> changed contents of some directories between couple of machines. > >> As rsync 3 isn't open source, but GPL3 it's out of question in > >> order to keep the system untainted. > >> > >> The software should be relatively lightweight - no fullblown > >> mirroring/backup is needed. Also hints how to achieve similar ends > >> using maybe tar/ssh might do. > > > > sysutils/cpdup provides similar functionality to rsync and is bsd > > licensed. cpdup in ports comes from old matt dillon pages and is version1.18. DragonflyBSD has version 1.32 at [1][2] and compiles with low effort on FreeBSD. > Does anybody have information on how efficient it is in comparison > with rsync? Apart from that, I agree with the other comments. But if > Reko wants a non-GPL3 package, for whatever reason, what's wrong with > an older version of rsync? For me it has better performance, the BSD licence and promote/use BSD borned tools, for me it's a plus. > Greg [1] http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/tree/d72200edc8a9934f16e185f29e31ef5fe654c93a:/bin/cpdup [2] http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/d72200edc8a9934f16e185f29e31ef5fe654c93a:/bin/cpdup/cpdup.c --- --- Eduardo Morras <emorr...@yahoo.es> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"