Tue Aug 18 10:56:10 CDT 2009 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.43: Gavin Carr ( gavin at openfusion dot com dot au ) sent a patch to make include-from and exclude-from allow multiple arguments. This oversight was a misunderstanding on my part as to how these actually work. Many thanks to Gavin for correcting my preception in the form of a very helpful patch.

also added support for new options in 2.6.7

      removed 1 second sleep based on Petya Kohts testing ( kohts at
      yandex-team dot ru ) as this is un-needed paranoia

                added test to check for rsync binary in configured location

Fri Jun 24 21:11:04 CDT 2005 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.42: added Scalar::Util as a required module since it was not part of core before perl 5.8 (sorry). Also changed build-name for the config file so it will not clobber perl's Config.pm for odd @INC orders. Thanks again to Simon Myers (Smylers at stripey dot com ) for pointing out the potential problem.

Tue May 24 11:28:43 CDT 2005 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.41: fixed 'use Scalar::Util' again (hopefully correct this time). Trying to do too many things at once, and need work on tests to catch my bonehead mistakes. Improved test.pl coming soon.

Mon May 23 16:51:42 CDT 2005 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.40: I missed one critical line in the patch from Smylers and broke more than I fixed. This update includes the 'use' statement.

Sun May 22 17:13:16 CDT 2005 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.39: Simon Myers ( Smylers at stripey dot com ) sent a patch to allow Path::Class objects as source paths. The previous error checking only allowed source to be a string or an array. This update bypasses the sanity-check if the source is a blessed object and now assumes the programmer knows what they are doing and that the object can be read as a string.

Added support for the only-write-batch option in rsync-2.6.5-pre1

Wed Mar 30 22:06:04 CST 2005 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.38: Harald Flaucher ( Harald dot Flaucher at mondial dot de ) requested support for the --acls option, which is not part of rsync, but an included patch that some use. His request inspired the idea for the 'literal' option in the module to allow passing arbitrary literal arguments to rsync so other patches or even newer versions of rsync can be used. Also added support for the protocol option that was previously undocumented.

Sat Mar 5 19:59:01 CST 2005 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.37: added support for new options in 2.6.4-pre1: del, delete-before, delete-during, delay-updates, dirs, filter, fuzzy, itemize-changes, list-only, omit-dir-times, remove-sent-files, and max-size. See the rsync manpage for full details on these options.

Fixed a type-o that kept partial-dir from being handled properly.

      Bill Uhl ( buhl at web-services dot net ) provided a patch to
      split out the creation of the rsync command from the exec function.
      The new call (getcmd) returns a reference to an array of the command
      to be executed.  Bill is working on a graphical interface to rsync
      using this module and wants an alternate exec wrapper.  This version
      includes a variation on his patch.

Tue Jan 18 17:05:00 CST 2005 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• versioon 0.36: fix for "uninitialized value" warning submitted thru rt.cpan.org. Thanks go to the anonymous Debian user (HTH).

Wed Dec 8 18:33:45 CST 2004 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.35: test 4 was failing due to bad pattern match in the test code. no functional changes (error message changed for 2.6.3).

Thu Aug 12 20:45:43 CDT 2004 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.34: added support for new options in 2.6.3: partial-dir, checksum-seed, keep-dirlinks, inplace, ipv4, and ipv6.

Tue Jun 1 12:59:36 CDT 2004 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.33: Fixed a type-o in parsing of quote-dst tag. Peter teStrake (peter dot testrake at tradingscreen dot com) pointed out that the exec method did not protect itself from a user-defined SIGCHLD handler and could miss the exit of rsync and report a false error. A local reset of the handler should protect it and still leave the handler in place for the rest of the user code.

Sun Dec 21 03:18:26 CST 2003 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.32: Added support for new option in 2.6.0: --from0, --no-relative, --no-implied-dirs, and --files-from. A new infun option has been added so a user-supplied function can print the list to --files-from=-. See the rsync man page and the pod doc for more info. Also fixed a bug underscores were not recognized as the hyphen equivalent for quote_dst, quote_src and path_to_rsync. An anonymous user submitted a fix where parens were needed due to precedence problems when srchost is defined. The fix is included in this release.

Tue Jul 29 22:13:50 CDT 2003 ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.31: Bill Uhl ( buhl at web-services dot net ) sent a patch to add the missing ignore-existing option and make write-batch a scalar option (both were oversights on my part). He also suggested quoting the source paths. Since this could break intended actions, There are now 2 options to do this if desired. The quote-src and quote-dst flags will add double-quotes around each path in the source or the destination when set. This should help avoid with pathnames containing spaces. James CE Johnson sent a patch to add the no-stdin flag since calling the module under mod_perl was having problems. Bill also reported problems on win32 and I found strange behaviour myself during some tests, so I have backed-out the passing of stdin (from 0.27) entirely.

Tue Jun 10 14:41:54 CDT 2003 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.30: Paul Egan sent a patch that does a much better job of cleaning up the select loop. I was still not taking full advantage of the features of IO::Select or IO::Handle. Thanks go to Paul for a much simplified loop, and hopefully an end to the hangs (at least those due to the perl code).

Mon Jun 9 17:39:42 CDT 2003 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.29: Paul Egan had another suggestion I liked very much. I switched to using IO::Select rather than calling select directly. I've always hated the ugly vec code that must be added in order to use select. It clutters the program with lots of unrelated but essential cruft. The module keeps all that separate from what is going on in the rsync wrapper. Paul was still seeing a hang in certain cases, and Ronald J Kimball ( rjk at linguist dot thayer dot dartmouth dot edu ) was having similar problems. Both were seeing a hang on the eof tests, so I removed them (eof does not play well with sysread, but we need sysread to make sure we don't block). I have not been able to make it hang (at least not yet).

Thu May 29 21:33:07 CDT 2003 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.28: Paul Egan ( paulegan at mail dot com ) found one of the cases where the module could block, and provided a patch to fix it. The cost is a going thru select again after each block is read, but he was able to prove it stops the hang. Paul also suggested an improvement on the sysread. I am now using the block size of the file descriptor (defaulting back to 1024 if that fails for some reason). Many thanks to Paul for not only finding a way to reproduce the hang, but also finding a fix.

Sat Feb 1 23:03:55 CST 2003 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.27: got into too big a rush and forgot to test. The STDIN hack caused IPC::Open3 to spew, so I had to change it to glob to work properly. 0.26 was never released, but now I'm thinking seriously about breaking the link between the module version and RCS. I'll have to do this anyway if I move to Subversion for revision control, since it's versions are handled in a different manner.

Mon Jan 13 11:25:42 CST 2003 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.26: Added link-dest option (new in 2.5.6pre1). I previously closed stdin of the forked rsync command since rsync didn't really use it. Now the include-from and exclude-from options may be set to '-' and rsync will read the list from stdin. I've attempted to pass STDIN directly to rsync in case someone wants to use this option. In my simple tests the code works, but I have not done extensive tests, and do not know if you can pass other data such as passwords (not a good idea in terms of security). This may also have other side effects since STDIN could be a tty in some instances and not in others (may cause the underlying rsh, ssh, or other transport to behave differently during testing versus cron or other unattended execution). If this becomes a problem for anyone I'll figure out some way to make it optional.

Tue Jan 7 13:46:56 CST 2003 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.25: Tong Zhu ( tongzhu at thereinc dot com ) found an error where use of errfun and/or outfun exposed possible use of uninitialized variables (those used to break output into individual lines). Thanks for pointing out my error, and the useful 'diff' output making my coding error easy to track down and fix.

Wed Dec 11 17:57:25 CST 2002 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.24: Heiko Jansen ( heiko_jansen at web dot de ) found an error in the exec function where I was accessing the errfun and outfun functions from the main object, and ignoring them if they were passed to 'exec'. Thanks for pointing out the error, hopefully this will work much better for you know.

Wed Dec 4 22:38:14 CST 2002 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.23: I got 3 separate reports of hangs, but cannot reproduce the error (yet). Added a trap and more eof tests to hopefully catch and exit properly.

Thu Mar 14 23:19:35 CST 2002 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.22: added options for rsync 2.5.4, no-blocking-io, no-detach, and no-whole-file.

Thu Dec 20 13:52:33 CST 2001 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.21: added rsync+ options from 2.4.7pre4/2.5.0, read-batch and write-batch.

      Thanks to Jonathan Pelletier ( jonathan dot pelletier at matrox dot com
      ) for catching (and supply a fix for) an output message loss.  This
      version contains a variation on his patch.  Jonathan also suggested the
      new method 'lastcmd' to return the last 'rsync' command passed to the
      system for devugging and error messages.

Fri Sep 7 15:18:58 CDT 2001 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.20: made changes to test.pl so failed tests would return non-zero exit and actually fail the tests. Also corrected several type-os in the POD documentation (thanks to Joe Smith ( Joe dot Smith at wcom dot com ) for pointing them out).

Wed May 16 21:11:31 CDT 2001 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.19: discovered the new makefile was installing into the wrong path. It should follow the proper naming convention now.

Thu May 10 22:28:28 CDT 2001 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.18: Many thanks to Andreas Koenig ( andreas dot koenig at dubravka dot kbx dot de ) for setting me straight on the architecture specific versus the arch-independent directory usage, and for explaining why this wasn't showing up in the by-module listings. The tar file now has a recognizable .pm file in it for proper CPAN distribution. There is also a File::Rsync::Config.pm in the arch-specific dir where the build process stores the path to the rsync executable.

Mon May 7 01:07:44 CDT 2001 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.17: I decided it is better for the out and err methods to return any collected output regardless of whther or not an output function has been defined. This way you can process each line yourself and still print the entire output in bulk if desired. This also keeps me from having to work out what these methods should return if called when an output function has been defined.

Thu Feb 15 21:25:23 CST 2001 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.16: James Mello ( kingjamm at colltech dot com ) submitted a patch to add a 'list' function, and educated me on the interesting aspect of calling rsync without a destination in order to obtain an 'ls -l' or 'ls -lr' (with -r or -a) style output. Rather than duplicating the exec function I made modifications to it and built a wrapper to get the list functionality. This has all kinds of possibilities. Many thanks to James for the great idea and the education on an option I had never explored.

      use File::Rsync;$rs=File::Rsync->new(srchost => 'localhost:');
      print $rs->list; will list available modules on the local daemon.

Tue Nov 28 10:22:50 CST 2000 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.15: After more thought and discussion with Boris we decided a second arg of either 'out' or 'err' should be passed to the functions so a single user-defined function could be used and it will be able to determine the source of the text in arg 1. Simple functions can ignore the second arg. The examples below would need to change to 'outfun => sub {print shift}' and 'errfun => sub {print shift}' to keep from printing the source string. (version 0.14 was not released to CPAN)

Fri Nov 17 23:03:00 CST 2000 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.14: Per suggestion from Boris Goldowsky ( boris at range dot infoplease dot com ), added 'outfun' and 'errfun' options. If you supply a function (CODE) reference to these the stderr and stdout from rsync is passed to these functions one output line at a time and is not collected internally for post examination. Providing a function like 'outfun => sub {print @_}' will cause each line to be printed as they arrive. A function like 'outfun => sub {print "."}' will simply shows progress dots like cpio's -V option. Thanks to Boris for the suggestion. Sorry it took me so long to get it added.

Sat Sep 16 23:32:59 CDT 2000 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.13: added suport for new flags blocking-io and ignore-errors, as well as scalars bwlimit, max-delete, and modify-window. I also rearranged the options hashes into a vertical sort similar to 'ls'. This makes additions a bit more difficult, but makes reading and verifying the options much easier (at least for me).

Tue Feb 29 17:41:14 CST 2000 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.12: pervious version fixed blocking, but was not clean and caused the tests to fail in odd ways. This should be better.
• also added code to treat underscore the same as hyphen in option keys similar to Tk. This allows the use of bareword keys in hashes without being mis-interpreted as subraction.

Fri Feb 18 17:45:13 CST 2000 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.11: fixed a blocking problem in the exec function If one of the output pipes filled up it hung forever (oops).

Mon Feb 7 14:05:37 CST 2000 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.10: removed comments about rsync not considering some things to be errors. This appears to be a bug in 2.3.2 on Linux. It has been submitted to the rsync team. On Solaris rsync properly returns a non-zero exit status if the source path does not exist. The bug was fixed in the CVS tree, and in the release 2.4.1.
• added support for --backup-dir and --existing options (new in 2.4.1)
• Since I've not heard from anyone about keeping the command-line style options, I've dropped them. The hash-style affords more flexibility anyway. I also removed some duplicate code in parseopts since I can now treat all args as a hash.
• After some discussion on the rsync mailing list I was told about a method of passing multiple source arguments for a remote server. I've added a new hash key 'srchost' to be used in combination with the 'source' array to make it easier to use this capability. If the source host is remote, and you have multiple source paths, you can put the source hostname in 'srchost', and the paths in the 'source' array. The module will assemble them as a single argument to rsync. If 'srchost' is null then the 'source' array is passed to exec as seperate arguments.

Wed Dec 1 21:55:44 CST 1999 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.09: removed bareword keys in hashes (5.00404 doesn't like my use of 'scalar' as a key)
• version 0.08: changed test 5 in test.pl to account for different return status between Solaris and Linux. I'll need to look into why one detects the error and the other doesn't (rsync itself, not perl).

Tue Nov 30 20:46:00 CST 1999 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.07:
• removed global $pkgname, now uses 'my $pkgname=ref $self' instead. I also had to bless $self earlier in 'new' so defopts, and parseopts can use 'ref $self' to determine the package name. It was not too bright to hardcode the package name (vacations can have odd effects on the brain)
• changed saveopts and parseopts to begin with underscore since they are for internal use only.

Sun Nov 28 19:41:31 CST 1999 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.06:
• added $pkgname for 'carp' messages to make it clearer where they came from.
• added missing check for 'include' in exec method
• other misc cleanup and clarification of code and documentation

Sun Nov 28 02:47:34 CST 1999 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.05: major re-organization and re-writing of internal functions to add the ability to pass a hash reference for perl-style options handling. (Thanks to Greg Ward for the suggestion) This gives increased flexibility including the ability to turn off boolean flags, and to build your own include or exclude list as an array and pass a reference to the array to the module. The same can be done for source paths.
• removed leading double-dashes from the option keys. It is easier to add them in the parser for command-line style than to remove them for perl-style hashes.
• changed 'err' and 'out' methods to return an empty string or an empty list if no output was generated. If there was output they return it as an array or a reference to an array as before. This should make testing for the existance of output more efficient. Before you had to call them in a scalar context and dereference the return in order to check. Now you can use a simple truth test. Also added a note about conditions where rsync itself can return a true (0) exit but the programmer may consider it an error. In these situations you need to check stderr for error messages (such as 'no such file or directory'). See 'exec' method in the manpage.
• removed newlines from carp messages so the 'at <prog> line ##' is on the same line as the rest of the error message (bad habit from die).
• changed all return values except 'new' to zero instead of undef so -w won't complain about use of un-initialized values. If anyone has a good reason to put this back (like good/standard coding practices) let me know.
• added test.pl script for 'make test'.

Sun Nov 21 02:18:56 CST 1999 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.04: added missing 'next' that would cause a parsing error if -P was used.
• Renamed module to File::Rsync (Thanks to Tim Bunce for the suggestion) It really fits better here than in Net::, but once I thought of it as a network-based program I had a mental block when considering other groups.

Fri Nov 19 13:25:18 CST 1999 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.03: --address should be a scalar, not a flag (the rsync man page is unclear on this).

Wed Nov 17 21:20:16 CST 1999 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.02:
• wrote first draft of Makefile.PL and makepm.PL to wrap it all up as a real perl module.
• added new options for rsync 2.3.2 (-P, --delete-after, and --address) -P is short for --partial and --progress. --address is only used in server mode. I don't know what good these are inside this module, but you should still be able to pass them if you want. --delete-after allows the user to delay any --delete actions until after all other files are synced. The default is to perform any deletes before in order help insure sufficient disk space is available. See the rsync (1) man page for more details.
• remove any chance of clobbering $_ (mostly paranoia I hope)

Tue Jun 15 15:27:20 CDT 1999 Lee Eakin ( leakin at dfw dot nostrum dot com )

• version 0.01: (initial) based on rsync 2.3.1