Hello, Please bear with me because I'm no command-line guru. Quite the opposite.
I was wondering if there existed a simple, straightforward way for a novice to install the latest version of rsync (3.0.9) onto Mac OS X. After searching around the Web, I found that the following site offers such an installer -- http://www.themacplace.co.uk/downloads.html -- but the proposed version of rsync (3.0.6) is not quite the latest one. I'm using rsync to back up Mac boxes to a Linux box. I learnt about rsync and how to use it, then got it working, only to find that Apple ships OS X with a very outdated version of the programme (2.6.9), causing problems, for example, with extended attributes. Being a novice, I have no need to install Apple's XCode (the MacPorts programme, on macports.org, would appear to require this, as far as I can understand), and I would just like a simple way of getting the latest version of rsync up and running. Any help anyone would be kind enough to provide would be much appreciated. Thanks, S.N. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html