Why couldn't the latest version of rsync be installed on CentOS 7.2? - linux

Question

I am using CentOS 7.2.
I would like to install the latest version of rsync - rsync-3.1.2,
rsync-3.0.9 is on system, installed when installing mariadb with yum,
# rpm -qa |grep rsync
rsync-3.0.9-17.el7.x86_64
removing rsync-3.0.9 first,
# yum remove rsync
rsync and mariadb were removed together,
then,
installing rsync-3.1.2 from source code,
# wget https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-3.1.2.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf rsync-3.1.2.tar.gz
# cd rsync-3.1.2
# ./configure
# make
# make install
then,
installing mariadb with yum again,
but rsync-3.0.9 will still be installed.
How can I solve the problem?

Answer 1

You can install rsync 3.1.2 from the Fedora 24 .rpm package:
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/24/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/r/rsync-3.1.2-2.fc24.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh rsync-3.1.2-2.fc24.x86_64.rpm
(but that question doesn't really belong to stackoverflow)

Answer 2

You can install rsync 3.1.2 from the gf-plus repo. Just follow the steps below:
Install the gf-release package.
sudo rpm -Uvh http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/el/7/gf/x86_64/gf-release-7-10.gf.el7.noarch.rpm
Upgrade rsync package from the gf-plus repo.
sudo yum install -y --enablerepo=gf-plus rsync
Check rsync version.
hash -r; rsync --version | awk 'NR==1 {print $3}'
If it prints 3.1.2, rsync is upgraded.
By default, only the gf repo is enabled, which claims that it "won't overwrite core distro packages". You can disable it:
sudo yum-config-manager --disable gf
(For command not found error, run sudo yum install -y yum-utils and try again.)
Or simply remove all the gf* repos by removing the gf-release package:
sudo yum remove -y gf-release

Answer 3

You either need to install all of your software using packages, or install all of your software from source. Trying to mix and match is going to lead to exactly the sort of problem you are experiencing here: the mariadb package has a dependency on rsync, but the package manager doesn't know anything about the files you have installed from source.
The correct way to solve this problem is to build your own rsync package that can then be installed with yum. You can start with the source package for your distribution and then modify it for 3.1.2. You may be able to utilize a more recent package (e.g., from Fedora) and rebuild it for your system.
You can find the source RPM for rsync-3.0.9 here, and there is some documentation that will hopefully help you get started here.