Is there a way to specify to rsync that metadata should NOT be updated unless the object was created, or the contents of a file was modified.
Specifically, what I want to do is use rsync to "install" a file tree of a few changes (a package being replicated to multiple machines after it has been compiled). The problem is that the file tree created to hold the files from the install does not have the correct meta data in the directories unless the package is installing that directory. For example /usr/bin has permission 0755 normally, but I find that same directory within the directory derived from building the package does not have 0755. Sometimes directories are owned or have a group other than root for a reason. When I replicate these few files over to the target systems, I want the metadata on the target systems to stay as it was, and not be updated by the package (except of course for new ones created by the package). Any way to do this in rsync? I'd prefer not to have to reproduce that metadata back into the package tree being built (this would still cause the metadata to change, though it would not be changed differently). The reason is that it may be the case at some point that the metadata is not universally the same across different machines and needs to be retained on each machine the way it was set up originally. I can do this by staging the tree in /tmp first and running a complex script to apply the updates. I would prefer to find something cleaner that already does it right, if possible. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
