Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue 17 Aug 2004, Dan Christensen wrote:
>> 
>> It doesn't list source/file, even though the permissions have
>> changed.  The same happens with owner/group.
>> 
>> In particular, if rsync is run with "-n" and "-v", it appears
>> that the trees are identical, which is misleading.
>
> Later versions of rsync have the --itemize-changes option, which will
> also show these differences.

Thanks for pointing this out.

> Last week the upstream author came up with a patch for the specific
> problem that you demonstrated. I'm undecided whether I should wait for
> 2.6.5, or to make a Debian version of 2.6.4 that has that patch in it...

I see that the man page makes it clear that -v doesn't currently
list permission/attribute changes, so this isn't really a bug.
And it's not really that important, so I'd say wait for 2.6.5.

Dan


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