On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 11:36, Jay Fenlason wrote: > I've written a patch to rsync that adds support for transferring posix > extended attributes. I've put the srpm and an i386 binary rpm at > http://people.redhat.com/fenlason/rsync/rsync-2.6.3-2.{src,i386}.rpm > These rpms also contain the acl patch. > > To enable the transfer of extended attributes you need to use the new > -X option. Naturally, both the client and server rsyncs must include > the extended attribute patch if you use -X. > > Please try this rpm out, and report whether it works or not. After I > get some feedback I'll be sending the patch (or its successor) to the > upstream rsync maintainer. Nice, thanks. Trivial test of rsync -aX -e ssh /etc host:/tmp correctly reproduced the SELinux attributes on the /tmp/etc tree on the target host. -- Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> National Security Agency
