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Andrew Tridgell e8d10dc2ad old_versions: commit static binaries of old rsync releases
Nine statically-linked, stripped binaries for the version-mixing test
suite (and ad-hoc cross-version behaviour checks): every x.y.0 release
from 2.6.0 (2004, protocol 27) through 3.4.0, plus the 3.1.3/3.2.7/3.4.1
point releases. 2.6.0 is the practical floor; older tags need more
porting to build on a current toolchain.

build_static.sh rebuilds any release from its git tag, applying the
minimal patches needed to compile old sources on a modern toolchain:
K&R lseek64 redecl, gettimeofday, -std=gnu11, --disable-openssl, and
_FORTIFY_SOURCE disabled (modern FORTIFY=3 turns latent benign over-reads
in old rsync into aborts when it runs as a server). Pre-3.0 trees ship
configure.in, so it regenerates configure (autoheader/autoconf) after
neutralizing the dead AC_LIBOBJ replacement fallbacks, generates proto.h,
and stubs the dropped vendored lib/addrinfo.h -- all guarded to no-op on
newer versions.

.gitattributes marks the binaries binary (so the text=auto rule can't
corrupt them) and export-ignore (kept out of the release tarball).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-01 19:21:35 +10:00

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# The rsync-web/ subdirectory holds the project website source content
# (mirrors what gets pushed to https://rsync.samba.org). Exclude it from
# `git archive` output so the release source tarball produced by
# packaging/release.py step_7_tarball does not bloat with HTML the
# tarball doesn't need.
/rsync-web/ export-ignore
# old_versions/ holds static binaries of historical rsync releases, used by the
# version-mixing test suite (.github/workflows/ubuntu-version-mix.yml) to run
# the current code against a real old peer over the daemon / remote-shell.
# Mark the binaries as binary so the `text=auto eol=lf` rule above can't try to
# normalise line endings and corrupt them; export-ignore keeps them out of the
# release source tarball.
/old_versions/rsync_* binary
/old_versions/rsync_* export-ignore