dear rsyncists, rsync is superb!
but did i actually find a bug? i did: $ rsync -vRHSPa rsync://rsync.mirror.ac.uk/updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/SRPMS . into an empty local directory the result was 140 bogus hardlinks of the same file: -rw-rw-r-- 140 g g 6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 Canna-3.5b2-62.7.3.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 140 g g 6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 LPRng-3.8.9-4.1.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 140 g g 6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 WindowMaker-0.80.0-9.3.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 140 g g 6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 XFree86-4.2.1-13.73.3.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 140 g g 6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 XFree86-4.2.1-13.73.23.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 140 g g 6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 apache-1.3.27-3.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 140 g g 6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 arts-1.0.5a-0.73.0.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 140 g g 6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 balsa-1.2.4-7.7.3.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 140 g g 6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 bind-9.2.1-1.7x.2.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 140 g g 6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 cups-1.1.14-15.4.src.rpm ... i repeated the command without the "H" and it was hunky dory. $ rpm -q rsync rsync-2.5.5-4 $ rsync --version rsync version 2.5.5 protocol version 26 Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others <http://rsync.samba.org/> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums redhat 9 with all up2dates. thank you, g -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
