Thanks for report, as this option was added in 3.0.0, it is not a regression caused by the rebase to rsync-3.0.6 - so RHEL-5 customers probably don't rely on this option. Anyway - keeping this bugzilla opened so it could be fixed eventually in next rsync update.

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Created attachment 531621 [details]
Permissions patch with updated spec for RHEL-5 rsync

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