Comments on: latest rsync incompatible with EC2 kernel http://www.liucougar.net/blog/archives/83 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:49:34 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.liucougar.net/blog/archives/83/comment-page-1#comment-181776 Anonymous Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:53:14 +0000 http://www.liucougar.net/blog/archives/83#comment-181776 For anyone else needing more instructions: * get source from http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/ - currently rsync-3.0.7.tar.gz * sftp or scp this file to your amazon instance and extract it (gunzip, tar -xvf) * you'll need root access at some point * go into the extracted folder rsync-3.0.7 and do configure --prefix=/mydir mydir being wherever you want to install rsync. * edit the file config.h and comment the line mentioned by the OP, ie. comment #define HAVE_LUTIMES 1 * do 'make' * do 'make install' * look in /mydir/bin : you should see the executable 'rsync' here. * save a copy of the rsync that came with your instance, just in case : cp /usr/bin/rsync /usr/bin/rsync.original (use 'which rsync' if your old rsync is not in /usr/bin) * now copy your new rsync : cp /mydir/rsync /usr/bin or ln -s /mydir/rsync /usr/bin/rsync * done! Time to bundle your image. The instance (Fedora 8 small linux in my case) now bundles without any errors. (And by the way : EBS backed instances are much easier to save!) For anyone else needing more instructions:
* get source from http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/ – currently rsync-3.0.7.tar.gz
* sftp or scp this file to your amazon instance and extract it (gunzip, tar -xvf)
* you’ll need root access at some point
* go into the extracted folder rsync-3.0.7 and do
configure –prefix=/mydir
mydir being wherever you want to install rsync.
* edit the file config.h and comment the line mentioned by the OP, ie. comment
#define HAVE_LUTIMES 1
* do ‘make’
* do ‘make install’
* look in /mydir/bin : you should see the executable ‘rsync’ here.
* save a copy of the rsync that came with your instance, just in case :
cp /usr/bin/rsync /usr/bin/rsync.original
(use ‘which rsync’ if your old rsync is not in /usr/bin)
* now copy your new rsync :
cp /mydir/rsync /usr/bin
or
ln -s /mydir/rsync /usr/bin/rsync
* done! Time to bundle your image. The instance (Fedora 8 small linux in my case) now bundles without any errors.

(And by the way : EBS backed instances are much easier to save!)

]]> By: jack richardson http://www.liucougar.net/blog/archives/83/comment-page-1#comment-180550 jack richardson Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:30:40 +0000 http://www.liucougar.net/blog/archives/83#comment-180550 Hi there, I wonder if you would be able to post a little more detail as regards this fix as I have not been able to replicate your success. When I re-installed rysnc, I did not / was not prompted to run a config script and I cannot find where/how to run it, so I cannot find the config.h file to comment out the lutimes line!! Many thanks in advance, Jack Hi there,
I wonder if you would be able to post a little more detail as regards this fix as I have not been able to replicate your success. When I re-installed rysnc, I did not / was not prompted to run a config script and I cannot find where/how to run it, so I cannot find the config.h file to comment out the lutimes line!!

Many thanks in advance,
Jack

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