I know that there are a million messages from newbies who cannot get --delete to work. This message is special. :)
--delete works fine for me EXCEPT when the following two conditions are present: 1) I am using the --relative option, and 2) the deleted file is in a subdirectory of the SRC directory. Here is a demonstration of how to recreate this bug: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rsync --version rsync version 2.6.4 protocol version 29 Copyright (C) 1996-2005 by Andrew Tridgell and others <http://rsync.samba.org/> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, inplace, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ mkdir -p src/1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cd src/1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/src/1$ touch a b c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/src/1$ cd /tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded -v src/ dest/ building file list ... done created directory dest src/ src/1/ src/1/a src/1/b src/1/c sent 235 bytes received 98 bytes 666.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rm src/1/c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded -v src/ dest/ building file list ... done src/1/ sent 99 bytes received 26 bytes 250.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 Now at this point we would expect there to be only files 'a' and 'b' to be present in /tmp/dest/src/1. However you can see that all three files are in that directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ls -lR dest dest: total 1 drwxr-xr-x 3 lenny lenny 1024 Apr 27 12:37 src dest/src: total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 lenny lenny 1024 Apr 27 12:38 1 dest/src/1: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 lenny lenny 0 Apr 27 12:37 a -rw-r--r-- 1 lenny lenny 0 Apr 27 12:37 b -rw-r--r-- 1 lenny lenny 0 Apr 27 12:37 c Just so you know, if you attempt to do this by placing files 'a','b', and 'c' just under the 'src' directory (without the '1' subdirectory), the --delete option will work correctly. Any thoughts? Thanks, Lenny -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
