Newer version than repo offers?

the_b_man

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I've got two servers; one running CentOS, the other, Openfiler.
I'm trying to establish an rsync operation between the two. Openfiler box has rsync 3.0.3. CentOS box has rsync 2.6.8. And I'm getting errors indicating the discrepancy is an issue.

When I "yum update" the CentOS box, it won't go past 2.6.8. and when I query the rsync-i386 package it tells me I have the latest, rsync-2.6.8-3.1.i386. It seems the CentOS repository is settled on a mature release of rsync, while I need a newer one.

How do I get the package manager to download a newer version? If I have to use a different repo, I would like to maintain that all other packages still come from the CentOS one. I'm really not inclined to try to build from source and mess around on that box either (it's a production box; the openfiler box I could afford to screw up though).
 
Two ways for this.

1) Find a newer repo and add it to your /etc/yum.repos.d/
2) Just download a newer rpm and install it manually.

From a quick search, it doesn't look like http://dag.wieers.com has anything newer than 3.0.0, but the there are a few other sources that have newer versions, like http://packages.sw.be/
 
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