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gptsync mit Homebrew installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für gptsync in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
GPT and MBR partition tables synchronization tool
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- gptsync
- showpart
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
gptsync is the GPT-to-MBR partition table synchronization utility from the rEFIt EFI boot toolkit. Its niche is Intel Mac dual-boot maintenance, where legacy BIOS-style operating systems expected an MBR view of a disk that was really partitioned with GPT.
Projektgeschichte
rEFIt began as an EFI boot menu and maintenance toolkit for Intel Macs. Its version history records a first public release on 2006-03-02 and says version 0.7, released on 2006-05-14, added a tool to synchronize GPT and MBR partition tables.
The rEFIt project later stopped active maintenance and pointed users toward rEFInd, a fork. gptsync remains packaged separately in Homebrew as a small system utility extracted from that older rEFIt codebase.
Adoptionsgeschichte
gptsync mattered most during the Intel Mac and Boot Camp era, when hybrid GPT/MBR layouts were a practical compatibility layer for booting Windows or other legacy systems.
The tool's adoption is therefore narrow but historically useful: it appears in package managers because disk-repair and dual-boot workflows sometimes need the utility without installing the full rEFIt boot menu.
Wie es verwendet wird
The utility reads a device's GPT partition table and synchronizes the legacy MBR view. It is a low-level disk tool, so usage belongs in recovery, bootloader, or dual-boot maintenance contexts rather than routine application workflows.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
gptsync is a classic small extracted utility: package managers keep it around because it solves a specific historical systems problem and has almost no substitute inside general application stacks.
Zeitleiste
- 2006-03-02: rEFIt 0.1 first public release.
- 2006-05-14: rEFIt 0.7 adds the GPT/MBR synchronization tool.
- 2007-03-25: rEFIt 0.9 improves gptsync filesystem and partition handling.
- 2010-03-07: rEFIt 0.14 adds support for additional partition types in gptsync.
- 2013-03-29: rEFIt site states the project is no longer actively maintained and points users to rEFInd.
Related projects
- rEFIt is the parent EFI boot menu and maintenance toolkit.
- rEFInd is the successor fork named by the rEFIt project page.
- GPT fdisk solves adjacent GPT and hybrid-MBR maintenance problems, but it is a separate project.
Quellen
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risikoklassifikator
blue Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · tool
Warum
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signale
- text:sync
Installationsverhalten
- In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
- Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 13 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Empfohlene Prüfung
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Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
gptsync | cli | globales Executable | |
showpart | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-08-04
Manager-Version0.14
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamnot checked
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
https://refit.sourceforge.net/
- InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
- InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://refit.sourceforge.net/none Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:gptsync |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.14 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gptsync |
| Homepage | https://refit.sourceforge.net/ |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://refit.sourceforge.net/ |
| Lizenz | BSD-3-Clause |
| Quellarchiv | https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/refit/rEFIt/0.14/refit-src-0.14.tar.gz |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
Details aus der Quelldatenbank
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | gptsync |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation