Bug 179212

Summary:	rsync won't talk to older rsync servers
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Theo Van Dinter <felicity>
Component:	rsync	Assignee:	Simo Sorce <ssorce>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Theo Van Dinter 2006-01-28 08:17:40 UTC

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Description of problem:
When connecting to older rsync daemons, specifically while using at least the -C option, the following 
error is displayed and rsync exits:

filter rules are too modern for remote rsync.
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at exclude.c(1119)

Searching around, I found the following via Google which reportedly fixes the issue:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2005-April/012317.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rsync-2.6.4-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have a rsync daemon running which is a version older than 2.6.4
2. run "rsync -CPcvuzb <some files> user@remote::name/"
  

Additional info:

Comment 1 Christian Iseli 2007-01-20 00:20:27 UTC

This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd.

Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and
either update the target product or close it ?

Thanks.

Comment 2 Simo Sorce 2007-02-16 15:25:11 UTC

This bug is so old and addressed in public by the rsync maintainer.
I assume therefore it is fixed in current releases.
Please reopen a bug if this is not true.