Hi,
the combination of --keep-dirlinks and --delete (--delete-during,
--delete-delay) erroneously deletes symlinks to directories on
the receiver.
With --delete-before and --delete-after it works as expected.
(rsync version 3.0.3 protocol version, on Debian Lenny)
I don't think that this behaviour is intended.
Details/example:
- Host 1 directory-structure:
drwx------ ./1
-rwx------ ./1/file
drwx------ ./1/dir
-rwx------ ./1/dir/subfile
- Host 2 directory-structure:
drwx------ ./2
-rwx------ ./2/file
lrwxrwxrwx ./2/dir -> ../foo
drwx------ ./foo
-rwx------ ./foo/subfile
- the data on both hosts is the same, so rsync shouldn't do anything
- mirroring Host 1 -> Host 2 correctly does nothing:
$ rsync -av --keep-dirlinks 1/ 2/
sending incremental file list
sent 94 bytes received 13 bytes 214.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
- mirroring Host 2 -> Host 1 correctly does nothing:
$ rsync -av --copy-dirlinks 2/ 1/
sending incremental file list
sent 94 bytes received 13 bytes 214.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
- --delete-after works correctly, and does nothing:
$ rsync -av --keep-dirlinks --delete-after 1/ 2/
building file list ... done
sent 89 bytes received 12 bytes 202.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
- --delete-before works correctly, and does nothing:
$ rsync -av --keep-dirlinks --delete-before 1/ 2/
building file list ... done
sent 89 bytes received 12 bytes 202.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
- but --delete (or --delete-during / --delete-delay) erroneously deltes the
"dir -> ../foo"-symlink (and copies the data afterwards):
$ rsync -av --keep-dirlinks --delete 1/ 2/
sending incremental file list
deleting dir
dir/
dir/subfile
sent 136 bytes received 35 bytes 342.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
Is this a bug, or did I miss something?
thanks,
Roland
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