Your incorrect statement "seems the issue does not actually exist" is
wrong. I told you exactly how to reproduce the problem on your latest
22.04.1 LTS release. You were also given the link to the upstream bug
that Wayne fixed over two years ago. This two-year-old bug does exist
and it exists in your most recent Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS release. Here's
another way to show the bug:
$ touch foo
$ rsync --update --info=skip foo foo
foo is newer
Obviously a file should not be listed as newer than itself. This rsync
is broken.
The real bug appears to be that Ubuntu is shipping a broken two-year-old
year 3.2.3 version of rsync in its latest 22.04.1 LTS release and won't
update it to get rid of the bug.
All my scripts that depend on an accurate "is newer" indicator from
rsync are broken.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1965076
Title:
rsync --update incorrectly reports file "is newer" than itself
Status in rsync package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
rsync 3.2.3 has a broken "--update" option. See the examples below.
The "--update" option incorrectly makes rsync say a file is newer than itself.
Remove the "--update" option, and rsync correctly says the file is "uptodate".
The right output should of course be "is uptodate" in all cases.
This bug also shows up between machines if the source rsync is 3.1.3 and the
destination is 3.2.3.
The bug does not show up if the source rsync is 3.2.3 and the destination is
3.1.3.
$ touch foo
$ rsync -avv --update foo .
delta-transmission disabled for local transfer or --whole-file
foo is newer <=== THIS IS NOT CORRECT - A file can't be newer
than itself.
total: matches=0 hash_hits=0 false_alarms=0 data=0
sent 38 bytes received 96 bytes 268.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
$ rsync -avv foo .
delta-transmission disabled for local transfer or --whole-file
foo is uptodate <=== THIS IS CORRECT
total: matches=0 hash_hits=0 false_alarms=0 data=0
sent 41 bytes received 106 bytes 294.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
Package: rsync 3.2.3-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-35.40-generic 5.13.19
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu71
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 15 22:47:44 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-03-16 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" - Release amd64 (20211012)
SourcePackage: rsync
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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