Hello Martin!
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Include the RPM and WarpIn repository into AN Package Manager...
This is a great undertaking, so thank you for the engagement.
I have a app specific question: RSYNC.
The version I am currently using is the Paul Smedley 3.0.7 release, which specifically calls out the following OS/2 specific changes:
Rsync v3.0.7 compiled with GCC 4.3.4 & kLibc v0.6.3
Requires libc063.dll available from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip
We (Paul and Steven) are using this as both client and server for backups
Changes in this version:
- Updated to v3.0.6
- Incorporated a bunch of patches from Steven Levine
- Move to GCC 4.3.4 as a compiler
- --xattrs now works for remote servers
eCS/OS2 specific changes:
- Supports OS/2 extended attributes
Enable with --xattrs
The default is --no-xattrs
- Supports drive letters
- Supports OS/2 style backslashes in path names
- Supports preserving native OS/2 permissions
Enable with --os2-perms
The default is --no-os2-perms
- Supports 2 second native file time resolution
Defaults --modify-window to 1 second
Disable with --modify-window=0
- Falls back to shared open if standard open fails
Allows open files to be backed up if owner allows reading
- Defaulted to %ETC% for rsyncd.conf
However, in your release (which is v3.1.3) there are no OS/2 specifics being called out.
Therefore, I am trying to understand how these packages compare to the otherwise alternative distributions in terms of functionality (this of course is a version-to-version kind of a comparison since obviously 3.0.7 will be different from 3.1.3), etc.

Thank you!