Re: Over-writing symlinks

2008-03-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 14:39 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: > It looks like --ignore-existing is currently implemented to apply only > to regular files. I think it was intended to apply to all > non-directories; certainly that is necessary if it is to prevent > undesired tweaking when a --link-dest r

Re: Over-writing symlinks

2008-02-07 Thread Dale Whitfield
Hi Matt >@2008.02.07_21:39:08_+0200 > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 14:46 +0200, Dale Whitfield wrote: > > I would like to avoid the following situation: > > > > SRC has: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 1596328 2005-04-29 17:34 libc-2.3.3.so > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root staf

Re: Over-writing symlinks

2008-02-07 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 14:46 +0200, Dale Whitfield wrote: > I would like to avoid the following situation: > > SRC has: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 1596328 2005-04-29 17:34 libc-2.3.3.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 193 2005-04-29 17:34 libc.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 13 2007-02-05 15:06 libc

Over-writing symlinks

2008-02-07 Thread Dale Whitfield
Hi, I would like to avoid the following situation: SRC has: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 1596328 2005-04-29 17:34 libc-2.3.3.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 193 2005-04-29 17:34 libc.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 13 2007-02-05 15:06 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.3.so DEST has: -rwxr-xr-x 1 dale dale 1558836