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Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> Wed, 02 December 2020 01:52 UTC

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On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 05:45:40PM -0800, Greg Skinner wrote:

> John, if you mean “What distributions out-of-the-box offer FTP but not
> rsync?”, I poked around NetBSD a bit and found that one can build an
> ftp client binary from its sources, but couldn’t find the rsync
> sources in any of the “usual” places.  On the other hand, I imagine it
> is possible to get rsync sources from some other (related) BSD
> distribution and build its binary with perhaps a bit of extra work.

If rsync is not in the "base" NetBSD distribution it is easily installed
via pkgsrc:

    http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/net/rsync/README.html

-- 
    Viktor.

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