RHEL 4 is catually beased on 2.6.3, this rebase would provide a good number of needed bug fixes. At the same time the rsync command line interface should be 100% compatible so no breakage of scripts is expected doing a rebase. Also the rsync package offer no libraries so there are no dependency problems. +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #339971 +++ The 2.6.9 release add a number of useful general bug fixes and is generally considered quite stable.
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Since there is only one more release of RHEL4 planned and it should be only for minor or very important fixes, this bug won't be fixed. Closing as WONTFIX.