So I just came across AlmaLinux’s Rsync Backport YUM repo at Mirrors | AlmaLinux Wiki and was wondering any reason why it’s not listed along with our AlmaLinux provided repositories at Repositories | AlmaLinux Wiki ?
curl http://repo.almalinux.org/backports/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo --output /etc/yum.repos.d/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo
yum -y update rsync
cat /etc/yum.repos.d/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo
# almalinux-backports-rsync.repo
[backports-rsync]
name=AlmaLinux $releasever Backports - rsync
baseurl=http://repo.almalinux.org/backports/$releasever/$basearch/rsync/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux-9
Any reason why this Rsync backport repo won’t work on Rocky Linux OS too? ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](https://forums.almalinux.org/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12)
This Rsync backport repo would save me time having to maintain my own Rsync 3.2.3 RPMs https://community.centminmod.com/threads/custom-rsync-3-2-3-rpm-builds-with-xxhash-zstd-support-for-centos-7.20768/ ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](https://forums.almalinux.org/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12)
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It should work fine on Rocky. I’d say the repo is semi-maintained - I keep an eye on rsync versions and I’ll update it should anything security/bug-wise come out for what’s there. I mostly packaged that to help mirrors out a little bit. Context: rsync 3.2 w/xxhash Now Usable rsync.repo.almalinux.org - Mirror-announce - AlmaLinux List Archives
Building this was actually because I follow your performance graphs and xxhash was a nice improvement in some areas so thanks for the work you do!
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Sweet. Yup xxhash speed up is nice. So glad my benchmarks for rsync 3.2.3 were useful ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](https://forums.almalinux.org/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12)
Next up may be newer tar versions https://community.centminmod.com/threads/custom-tar-archiver-rpm-build-with-facebook-zstd-compression-support.16243/ ![:smiley: :smiley:](https://forums.almalinux.org/images/emoji/twitter/smiley.png?v=12)
For me on AlmaLinux 8/9 and CentOS 7
tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.35
Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
tar --help | grep 'zstd'
--zstd filter the archive through zstd
Looks like AlmaLinux 8 gets tar 1.30 without zstd support while AlmaLinux 9 gets tar 1.34 with zstd support ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](https://forums.almalinux.org/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12)
I might could be convinced to add that too ![:wink: :wink:](https://forums.almalinux.org/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=12)
I’ll read over your data in a bit.
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Seems Rsync 3.3.0 is now out NEWS for rsync ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](https://forums.almalinux.org/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12)
Just to update you I haven’t forgotten about this ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](https://forums.almalinux.org/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12)
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@jonathan guess you changed something for rsync repo ?
yum list elrepo-release
Warning: failed loading '/etc/yum.repos.d/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo', skipping.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:04 ago on Tue Jun 25 05:55:01 2024.
Available Packages
elrepo-release.noarch 9.1-1.el9.elrepo extras
cat /etc/yum.repos.d/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo
<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>cloudflare</center>
</body>
</html>
edit: ah HTTP to HTTPS redirect!