On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 23:10 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:11:43AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > The notes say to use --no-d, but using it seem not to help, and in > > fact the remote host is still sent the 'd' option: > > Yeah, the code was erroneously overriding the --no-d option, so I fixed > that in the latest version (see 3.0.1pre1). I also added an easier way > to request the backward-compatible "-r --exclude='/*/*'" options by > using a new option: --old-d. > > > Is this expected behavior now ? > > The -d option was added in 2.6.4, almost exactly 3 years ago. There > seems to be a significant amount of 2.6.3 still around (which is 3.5 > years old), which is a little sad to see, but I suppose not that > unexpected. > > In 3.0.1pre1, rsync tries to detect if the -d option is the cause of a > file-listing failure and suggests the use of the --old-d option to work > around the issue. Hopefully the public rsync servers will be upgrading > before too long, as there has been a significant amount of security > fixing going on in recent months, and it would be good for them to at > least be running 2.6.9 (with extra security patches), if not 3.0.1 > itself.
Thanks Wayne, I am landing 3.0.1pre1 in Fedora asap. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
