Support rsync

[bytemain]

Looks like rsync can be built with nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/0736e7e3a90fb6d2ff6e11c077918220a253c9bc/pkgs/applications/networking/sync/rsync

as said in: RsyncProject/rsync#72 (comment)

Thank you for your great work

[bytemain]

But it seems to have been inactive in nixpkgs for five years.

[ilg-ul]

Can you describe a use case for such a package? And explain why the binaries provided by the existing distributions are not enough?

[bytemain]

Oh sorry, I forgot to remind this: the upstream didn't provide precompiled binaries: RsyncProject/rsync#72 (comment)

[bytemain]

I personally used it to transfer files via ssh, but on my one machine, it only has the old version, I want to use the latest version.

~$ sudo apt install rsync
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
rsync is already the newest version (3.2.7-1+deb12u2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 159 not upgraded.

[ilg-ul]

on my one machine, it only has the old version

Then ask the maintainers of your distribution to update the package.

The xPack binaries are intended for reproducible builds, not as a general replacement for all existing distributions.

[bytemain]

Got it, thanks for your reply