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has caused the Debian Bug report #47592,
regarding wishlist: config file with per-host values of --rsync-path
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Package: rsync
Version: 2.3.1-2
Severity: wishlist
at present, some of the remote hosts i work with do not have rsync natively on
their systems, that is, not in the PATH that the remote sshd will give to a
client. on those systems, i have compiled rsync and put it in ~/bin. this
requires me in turn to invoke rsync locally with the option
--rsync-path=~/bin/rsync for those hosts. It would be nice if I could simply
put this information into a configuration file, say /etc/rsync.conf and/or
~/.rsyncrc. Then I could use rsync from the command line without having to
remember for each of my remote hosts whether I need the --rsync-path option.
Another solution would be an option to rsync of --fallback-path or something
like that, such that if the remote rsync is not in the PATH given to it by ssh,
then the fallback path would be attempted. Then I could always invoke rsync
with that option. This is not as powerful a solution as the previous method,
since it only allows for one non-PATH location. Unless the --fallback-path
were allowed to be a colon-separated path list. But still, the config file is
preferred IMO.
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux aleph 2.2.12 #1 Sat Oct 2 12:14:46 EDT 1999 i586
Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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Dear Matt,
I am closing this ticket because it is out-dated and there was no
activity.
Your report sounds reasonable but more as a feature request which would
be better located at the upstream project. Their ticket system can be
found here [1] but I would recommend to discuss your use case on their
mailing list [2] first because there you will get a broader audience and
much more feedback than in the ticket system.
Closing the ticket happens in interest of Debian GNU/Linux project
because it harms the
project keeping tickets of that age open without any activity, decision
or action taken.
Feel free to re-open or open a fresh report.
[1] -- <https://rsync.samba.org/bug-tracking.html>
[2] -- <https://rsync.samba.org/lists.html>
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