On Fri 01 Sep 2006, Andy Spiegl wrote: > > ... and has been fixed, in testing and unstable, for about just as long. > Even in combination when connecting to a rsync server? > But then why is the bug report still open?
Because I couldn't reproduce it, and I didn't want to close a bug report I had not seen confirmed that it was fixed (although I'm pretty confident that it is). So if it works for you with the backports version, I'd love to hear it. > > "stable" is called "stable" because it basically doesn't change. > > Security fixes make it to point releases, but not "simple" bug fixes. > Well yes, but I'd consider this a pretty severe bug which would be worth > fixing in sarge. Unfortunately, that's not up to me :-( > > (BTW, I have never seen the bug myself, and I run rsync on dozens of > > systems.) > Then you are probably not using "--relative". That could be true :) That said, all my systems run the latest and greatest anyway... I meant to say I never encountered it, and there was a pretty simple workaround (drop the trailing slash). Your report that that doesn't help when connecting to an rsync server is news. > > You may want to check out http://www.backports.org/ for a backported > > version of a "modern" rsync release that's suitable for your "stable" > > system. > Thanks, I'll try that next week. > But I can't find anything about it in the changelog of the package... Did you check the rsync changelog? (I.e. not the Debian changelog; I won't list _all_ the rsync upstream changes in the Debian changelog...) If it's not there, then upstream probably forgot to mention it. As shown in http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2005-April/012338.html upstream (that's Wayne) had fixed it, and I would be most surprised if that fix hadn't gone into the official source. Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
