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Cleanest way to update rsync?

yomacroni

yomacroni

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Sep 19, 2017
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i am using high sierra and rsync —version shows it’s version 2.6.9. What is the cleanest way to update to rsync 3.1? I don’t want to install home brew if possible and just want to update the cleanest and easiest way possible.
 
yomacroni said:
I see binaries for Linux and Windows but nothing for Mac. It seems odd that the latest MacOS would include such an old rsync version. Do people compile source manually? I thought Mac would be more user friendly.
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Of course they do compile it up, that said I use pkgin for little things like this.

Code: 
MacUser2525:~$ which rsync
/usr/local/bin/rsync
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:48:28
MacUser2525:~$ /usr/local/bin/rsync --version
rsync  version 3.1.2  protocol version 31
Copyright (C) 1996-2015 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, no prealloc

rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:48:37
MacUser2525:~$ pkgin search rsync
zsync-0.6.2          Optimising file distribution program, a 1-to-many rsync
ssync-1.9.1          Invoke rsync to distribute files to a set of hosts
rsync-3.1.2 =        Network file distribution/synchronisation utility
py36-vdirsyncer-0.16.2  Synchronization tool for vdir
py35-vdirsyncer-0.16.2  Synchronization tool for vdir
py34-vdirsyncer-0.16.2  Synchronization tool for vdir
p5-File-RsyncP-0.74nb3  Perl Rsync client
p5-File-Rsync-0.49nb2  Perl module interface to rsync(1)
p5-File-DirSync-1.22nb9  Perl5 module to synchronize two directories rapidly
mrsync-20090219      Multicast data replication and synchronisation tool
librsync-2.0.0nb1    rsync-like rolling checksum library

=: package is installed and up-to-date
<: package is installed but newer version is available
>: installed package has a greater version than available package

I am using Sierra not sure if it work with later versions of MacOS.

https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/
 
I’m on High Sierra and my rsync version is 2.6.9. On Centos Linux I use yum to manage software updates which is available by default. Is there an already installed package manager on MacOS I can use? Why do I need to install something like pkgsrc to manage software updates?

MacUser2525 said:
Of course they do compile it up, that said I use pkgin for little things like this.

Code: 
MacUser2525:~$ which rsync
/usr/local/bin/rsync
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:48:28
MacUser2525:~$ /usr/local/bin/rsync --version
rsync  version 3.1.2  protocol version 31
Copyright (C) 1996-2015 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, no prealloc

rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:48:37
MacUser2525:~$ pkgin search rsync
zsync-0.6.2          Optimising file distribution program, a 1-to-many rsync
ssync-1.9.1          Invoke rsync to distribute files to a set of hosts
rsync-3.1.2 =        Network file distribution/synchronisation utility
py36-vdirsyncer-0.16.2  Synchronization tool for vdir
py35-vdirsyncer-0.16.2  Synchronization tool for vdir
py34-vdirsyncer-0.16.2  Synchronization tool for vdir
p5-File-RsyncP-0.74nb3  Perl Rsync client
p5-File-Rsync-0.49nb2  Perl module interface to rsync(1)
p5-File-DirSync-1.22nb9  Perl5 module to synchronize two directories rapidly
mrsync-20090219      Multicast data replication and synchronisation tool
librsync-2.0.0nb1    rsync-like rolling checksum library

=: package is installed and up-to-date
<: package is installed but newer version is available
>: installed package has a greater version than available package

I am using Sierra not sure if it work with later versions of MacOS.

https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/
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yomacroni said:
I’m on High Sierra and my rsync version is 2.6.9. On Centos Linux I use yum to manage software updates which is available by default. Is there an already installed package manager on MacOS I can use? Why do I need to install something like pkgsrc to manage software updates?
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You wanted ease of use in Apples world that is giving you exactly what they want to give you for that. Otherwise you go outside that walled garden and do it for yourself simple as that.
 
MacUser2525 said:
You wanted ease of use in Apples world that is giving you exactly what they want to give you for that. Otherwise you go outside that walled garden and do it for yourself simple as that.
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I get nervous going outside the walled garden. I guess I'm used to iOS where that's not done.
 
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