Bad rsync! 2.6.0 (stable) is old, 2.6.2 is newer but b0rken. This ebuild is based on 2.6.2-r4 minus now-included patches and lets me emerge sync and also backup my pretty large / - something that any versions >2.6.0 repeatedly failed at. IOW: works for me! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge this ebuild 2. enjoy working rsync :) 3. profit? my config (not sure if this is relevant but probably can't hurt): Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8.1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8.1 i686 VIA Samuel 2 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.17 i386-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-pipe -march=c3 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -march=c3 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow apache2 apm berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts chroot crypt cups curl encode ext-png ext-zlib fam fbcon flac foomaticdb gcj gd gd-external gdbm gif gmp gnome gpm graphviz gtk gtk2 imlib java jikes jpeg kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod motif ncurses nptl objc oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png postgres python qt readline ruby samba slang snmp sqlite ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
Created attachment 40035 [details] initial ebuild for rsync-2.6.3pre1
As of last night -pre2 is out, with some bugfixes (and suppsoedly approaching release). Simply rename the attached ebuild to _pre2 and it will continue to work.
done, 2.6.3_pre2 is in portage (but package masked)