rsync (was: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C)

Colin Percival colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jul 7 11:54:21 PDT 2004


At 11:17 07/07/2004, Gustavo A. Baratto wrote:
>Rsync is another tool that should be considered going to the base system as
>well.

Given that rsync
(a) is distributed under the GPL license, and
(b) has had two serious security flaws in the past year,
I don't think we really want to import it right now (or
possibly ever).

Colin Percival




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