Comment by jmclnx
1 day ago
I have not checked with OpenBSD 7.9, but as of 7.8 it did not support --exclude or -z. But outside of that openrsync works great.
(EDIT: --exclude is now supported on 7.9. Not sure when that was added, nice!)
But seems avoiding "slop" is getting very hard. I saw postfix now has a bit of AI code in it.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mrmasterkeyboard@mastodon.social/1...
Somewhat ironic Postfix has a record of no root/RCE in the default install, where opensmptd hasn't (CVE-2020-7247). Time will tell if it stays that way.
Where do you see that about Postfix? I followed the links and the only thing I see is that AI is being used to find bugs, not write code.
>Claude assisted code found in external/ibm-public/postfix/dist...
That is from the original post in the thread. Is that really due to LLM ? I do not know since I avoid AI as much as I can.
But the person also posted this link too:
https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/f764ddf4062e855f73fe2e3...
Right, I read all that and I didn't see anything to indicate that AI is being used to write code - just one person's unsubstantiated claim.
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Exclude is very commonly used in automation jobs to avoid duplicating big git repos and other big files. I think that would be a show stopper for a number of people.
I just tried openrsync(1) on OpenBSD 7.9, --exclude now works.
I have not tried using exclude in openrsync in a while, but I can see it now works on OpenBSD 7.9!