On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:01:29PM -0700, Peter Sturdza wrote: > I found and reported a bug about a year ago regarding > symbolic links but haven't seen any mention of it > since and it is still present in 2.6.1-pre2. > > Just want to make sure it isn't forgotten.
Thanks for the reminder. I hope to get some bug-reporting software going before too long, but in the meantime, it is helpful when people mention bugs that have fallen through the cracks. > With the archive, update and backup options set, rsync will always > replace the file with the symlink even when the file is newer The way rsync currently works, it doesn't consider a file and a symlink to be the same thing, so the -u option will not prevent a file from being replaced by a symlink. You can use the -L option to avoid this, but that will cause all symlinks to be expanded into separate files. > (and it will not save a backup either). This is a bug. There are a few places in the code that remove files when the type of the file changes, and not all of them make a proper backup of the replaced object. I'll look into fixing this for the next release (the one after 2.6.1). Thanks for providing a simple test case -- that's always very useful. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
