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There is openrsync, which the OpenBSD re-implementation of rsync It's not a fork, but it's 8 years old, and is already shipped by default in OpenBSD and macOS.

by MYEUHD 4mo ago

logicprog 4mo ago
To quote Tridge: > As to all the people saying “I’m going to package openrsync for platform XXX and we’ll use that!”. I find that rather amusing. If you do decide to go down that path I’d suggest you try the new rsync test suite on openrsync if you can stomach something that an AI has helped write. I tried it today and openrsync currently fails 85 of 98 tests, so I’m sure it won’t take you long to get it up to speed. You run it like this “./runtests.py — rsync-bin=../openrsync/openrsync — use-tcp”. Admittedly a lot of the failures are just features openrsync doesn’t have, but still, it’s not a great result.
- MYEUHD 4mo ago
  I have already been using openrsync even before the recent AI drama. Just like I have been using doas for several years. All I need is `rsync -urvP` and I suspect the majority of users don't need the advanced features either. The smaller code base also means less bugs and vulnerabilities. As an example doas is ~1k lines vs 160k for sudo. That surely means a smaller attack surface. The same is true for openrsync and rsync at approximately 18k vs 57k lines.
  - atmosx 4mo ago
    Yeap and still has bugs (reports say that the base system bin in 7.9 doesn't work properly): https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=178070682043839&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=178070682043839&w=2 And here: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&w=2&r=1&s=rsync&q=b https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&w=2&r=1&s=rsync&q=b you can quite a few other bugs... I use OpenBSD for routers and love it :-) but it is software, hence it has bugs .-
SoftTalker 4mo ago
It's also not feature-equivalent to rsync. But if it meets your needs, it's an option.

There is openrsync, which the OpenBSD re-implementation of rsync It's not a fork, but it's 8 years old, and is already shipped by default in OpenBSD and macOS.

by MYEUHD 4mo ago

There is openrsync, which the OpenBSD re-implementation of rsync It's not a fork, but it's 8 years old, and is already shipped by default in OpenBSD and macOS.

logicprog 4mo ago

To quote Tridge: > As to all the people saying “I’m going to package openrsync for platform XXX and we’ll use that!”. I find that rather amusing. If you do decide to go down that path I’d suggest you try the new rsync test suite on openrsync if you can stomach something that an AI has helped write. I tried it today and openrsync currently fails 85 of 98 tests, so I’m sure it won’t take you long to get it up to speed. You run it like this “./runtests.py — rsync-bin=../openrsync/openrsync — use-tcp”. Admittedly a lot of the failures are just features openrsync doesn’t have, but still, it’s not a great result.

MYEUHD 4mo ago
I have already been using openrsync even before the recent AI drama. Just like I have been using doas for several years. All I need is `rsync -urvP` and I suspect the majority of users don't need the advanced features either. The smaller code base also means less bugs and vulnerabilities. As an example doas is ~1k lines vs 160k for sudo. That surely means a smaller attack surface. The same is true for openrsync and rsync at approximately 18k vs 57k lines.
- atmosx 4mo ago
  Yeap and still has bugs (reports say that the base system bin in 7.9 doesn't work properly): https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=178070682043839&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=178070682043839&w=2 And here: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&w=2&r=1&s=rsync&q=b https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&w=2&r=1&s=rsync&q=b you can quite a few other bugs... I use OpenBSD for routers and love it :-) but it is software, hence it has bugs .-

SoftTalker 4mo ago

It's also not feature-equivalent to rsync. But if it meets your needs, it's an option.