FS#43335 - [rsync] rsync-patches (--time-limit/--stop-at & others)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ido Rosen (idorosen) - Monday, 05 January 2015, 02:19 GMT
Last edited by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Friday, 15 May 2015, 12:26 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
rsync is missing some features present in other distributions that also download the "rsync-patches" tarball (from the same place as the rsync tarball) and apply them. Some are for backwards compatibility, while some are for important features that do not come by default in core rsync.

One such feature is rsync --time-limit or rsync --stop-at which ensures that rsync does not run longer than the provided time limits.

Additional info:
* rsync 3.1.1-2 is missing --time-limit / --stop-at.
* rsync-patches-${pkgver}.tar.gz can be downloaded from https://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/

* I've attached a modified PKGBUILD that applies the time-limit.patch. Please feel free to look at other patches that CentOS/Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and others apply from the rsync-patches collection if you'd like.

   PKGBUILD (1.9 KiB)
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Closed by  Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Friday, 15 May 2015, 12:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Friday, 15 May 2015, 12:26 GMT
We do not patch packages and try to keep them vanilla. If these features are that important, they should be included by default.