Re: rsync for Win32
Sisyphus wrote: Hi, On the face of it, the topic of this post has little (if anything) to do with perl. But, afaict from 'perldoc perlhack', if I want to stay in touch with the current perl developments I need to be able to download the latest source by running: rsync -avz rsync://public.activestate.com/perl-current/ As was pointed out to me (off-list) the above command will result in a list of files, but none of those files will be downloaded. A trailing . is needed if the files are to be downloaded to the cwd. I got bitten by that. (That was my first mistake.) I ran it without the trailing . (as perl 'perldoc perlhack') ... saw the list of files, and spent a good few minutes trying to work out where the hell they had been placed :-) Someone had sent me a self-contained rsync package that seemed to work quite well (once I got the command sorted out). That package came with its own cygwin dll, so I deduced it was in fact a cygwin build, and that if I was going to use Cygwin's rsync, I might as well incorporate it into my Cygwin installation. (That was my second mistake.) I finally realised that the list of available Cygwin packages I had been looking at contained only the packages that I had already downloaded and stored locally. The 'rsync' package wasn't listed there simply because I had never downloaded it !! So ... I eventually got round to re-running Cygwin's Setup.exe - the aim being to install both git and rsync into Cygwin. Unfortunately I selected Install from internet instead of just downloading the files into my local folder and then installing from that local folder. (That was my third mistake.) I expected that Install from internet was simply going to install 'rsync' and 'git' - since (I thought) that was all I was asking it to do. (That was my fourth mistake.) Instead it started installing packages (such as perl) that I already had. Unfortunately, part of the way through, the process hanged ... so I hit the Cancel button. (That would have been my fifth mistake, except that I don't see that I had any other option.) I then found that things like running 'perl -V' from the Cygwin shell died (with errors that I can no longer recall). Only thing I could then think of doing was to try another total Install from internet from a different mirror - which I did. But ... apparently, if you cancel a Setup.exe installation before it has completed ( as I had done), then the next time you run Setup.exe you're liable to get a segmentation fault part way through (which is exactly what happened to me). I've since found that there's a patched Setup.exe (that doesn't suffer this affliction) available from http://rapidshare.com/files/98717404/setup.exe By this time I couldn't even open up Cygwin's bash shell ... so I simply deleted everything to do with Cygwin and started again from scratch, making sure to install both rsync and git. That seems to have worked quite well, except that I've now got a lot of stuff to rebuild (unless I can Restore it from the Recycle Bin - to where the original installation was sent.) Now this sort of experience is pretty much standard for me wrt Cygwin ... which is the reason that I try to avoid it wherever possible. Had I have known about the source snapshots (tarballs) available at http://public.activestate.com/pub/apc/perl-current-snap/ , I wouldn't even have bothered with rsync to begin with. Thanks to all respondents, btw. It's to be noted that, with your assistance, and despite my own inadequacies, I have actually managed to get there in the end. (It now just remains for me to determine exactly where there is :-) Cheers, Rob ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
RE: rsync for Win32
Sisyphus wrote: Hi, On the face of it, the topic of this post has little (if anything) to do with perl. But, afaict from 'perldoc perlhack', if I want to stay in touch with the current perl developments I need to be able to download the latest source by running: rsync -avz rsync://public.activestate.com/perl-current/ Only problem is .. I'm having trouble finding a Windows version of 'rsync' that's capable of succesfully running that command. Any advice ? Just to add to what others have already said: I also use the Cygwin rsync. It runs twice every night on my machine in the course of doing Test-Smokes ;-) ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
Re: rsync for Win32
did anyone check this out ? http://sourceforge.net/projects/win-rsync/ begin:vcard fn:Angelos Karageorgiou n:Karageorgiou;Angelos adr:Ano Ilissia;;8 Gazis St.;Athens;;GR-15771;Greece title:Internet Architect IT Strategist tel;work:+30 210 7713372 tel;fax:+30 210 7713709 tel;cell:+30 6949120773 note;quoted-printable:http://www.unix.gr=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Member Gerson Lehrman Group x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.linkedin.com/in/unixgr version:2.1 end:vcard ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
rsync for Win32
Hi, On the face of it, the topic of this post has little (if anything) to do with perl. But, afaict from 'perldoc perlhack', if I want to stay in touch with the current perl developments I need to be able to download the latest source by running: rsync -avz rsync://public.activestate.com/perl-current/ Only problem is .. I'm having trouble finding a Windows version of 'rsync' that's capable of succesfully running that command. Any advice ? I've asked about this on both perlmonks and the cygwin mailing list ... perhaps a solution will turn up in (at least) one of those places, though it has not so far. I couldn't find a Cygwin version of rsync under Cygwin's Setup.exe (though it wouldn't surprise me if such a beast existred) and the 2 windows executables that I've tried (rsync-wrap.exe and rsync.exe both croak on the command). Cheers, Rob ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
RE: rsync for Win32
This would be rsync over FTP not the standard rysnc over SSH to interface the ActiveState repository. Did you make any changes for this difference? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sisyphus Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:05 AM To: 'perl-win32-users' Subject: rsync for Win32 Hi, On the face of it, the topic of this post has little (if anything) to do with perl. But, afaict from 'perldoc perlhack', if I want to stay in touch with the current perl developments I need to be able to download the latest source by running: rsync -avz rsync://public.activestate.com/perl-current/ Only problem is .. I'm having trouble finding a Windows version of 'rsync' that's capable of succesfully running that command. Any advice ? I've asked about this on both perlmonks and the cygwin mailing list ... perhaps a solution will turn up in (at least) one of those places, though it has not so far. I couldn't find a Cygwin version of rsync under Cygwin's Setup.exe (though it wouldn't surprise me if such a beast existred) and the 2 windows executables that I've tried (rsync-wrap.exe and rsync.exe both croak on the command). Cheers, Rob ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
RE: rsync for Win32
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Sisyphus wrote: I couldn't find a Cygwin version of rsync under Cygwin's Setup.exe (though it wouldn't surprise me if such a beast existred). Look harder! rsync is listed in setup.exe, and it does work to access the Perl5 repository. I always run with CYGWIN=nontsec; otherwise rsync sometimes creates files and directories that are hard to delete again. Cheers, -Jan PS: The Perl5 repository is being transitioned to git soon. You'll find an implementation of git in the setup.exe too. I've successfully used it to fetch a snapshot from the Perl5 git test repository. ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
Re: rsync for Win32
Sisyphus wrote: I couldn't find a Cygwin version of rsync under Cygwin's Setup.exe (though it wouldn't surprise me if such a beast existred) and the 2 windows executables that I've tried (rsync-wrap.exe and rsync.exe both croak on the command). I have a fairly recent install of Cygwin and it looks like there is an rsync: $ which rsync /usr/bin/rsync ..I have not used it, so I can't attest that it actually works. --Mike ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
Re: rsync for Win32
On 10/03/2008, Sisyphus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, afaict from 'perldoc perlhack', if I want to stay in touch with the current perl developments I need to be able to download the latest source by running: rsync -avz rsync://public.activestate.com/perl-current/ Only problem is .. I'm having trouble finding a Windows version of 'rsync' that's capable of succesfully running that command. Any advice ? I use the cwRsync distribution (www.itefix.no/cwrsync/), which I believe is just a packaging of the cygwin rsync. I comes with a couple of additional utilities, including a good framework batch file (which includes setting CYGWIN=nontsec in the environment). I've successfully pulled the perl sources using it on Win98, win2K and WinXP. Rob. ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
