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From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
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Subject: Re: rsync 3.2.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:54:41 +0100
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Hi,

> On 20 Jun 2020, at 16:09, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> =
wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> rsync 3.2.0 is out and I just had time...for details see:
> https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-3.2.0-NEWS
>=20
> Right now running under Core 145 / x86_64. No problems.
>=20
> But I still have two questions.
>=20
> In order to use the new xxhash checksum support and zstd compression,
> the corresponding kernel modules would need to be activated. Do we want
> or need these?

You won=E2=80=99t need kernel modules for this. You simply need the relevant =
libraries.

I have packaged those for IPFire 3 and they are easy to build and have no fur=
ther dependencies. So I would recommend to at least add zstd.

https://git.ipfire.org/?p=3Dipfire-3.x.git;a=3Dblob;f=3Drsync/rsync.nm;h=3D52=
8dcfc0a377bc770a45a8f88af00079eb26dc93;hb=3Db40cdb8c182d8b4aa05c6e23cc67118c4=
aa4853c
https://git.ipfire.org/?p=3Dipfire-3.x.git;a=3Dblob;f=3Dzstd/zstd.nm;h=3De5af=
d342b9ad2ae0c0f394116ef2dfddea670413;hb=3D8bcac5c8cda49b91fe68bef64c3ad975b80=
a43ca

>=20
> For now, I disabled both with these configure options:
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> ...
> 	--disable-xxhash \
> 	--disable-zstd
> ...
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> Do we want (would someone use) the new 'rsync-ssl'-script? On a firewall!?

I tried to find out what this is useful for. It doesn=E2=80=99t harm us and c=
alls openssl. So I would just leave it in there.

> Current capabilities:
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> ***SNIP***
> root(a)ipfire: /tmp # ./rsync --version
> rsync  version 3.2.0  protocol version 31
> Copyright (C) 1996-2020 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
> Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
> Capabilities:
>    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
>    socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace, append,
>    ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes, prealloc, SIMD
> Checksum list:
>    md5 md4 none
> Compress list:
>    lz4 zlibx zlib none
> ***SNAP***
>=20
> Best,
> Matthias

-Michael

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