Here is the reply from upstream:
On Tue 26 Apr 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:25:14AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > I wouldn't have expected 2.6.4 to refuse to talk to even a 2.6.2 in > > this way... > > It shouldn't, and (interestingly) it wouldn't have if --delete had been > specified (apparently I did all my backward-compatibility testing using > --delete). > > So, it turns out to be a bug in the filter-compatibility code when we're > a client sender and we're not actually sending the filter list to the > receiver (which we don't in older protocols when we're the sender and > --delete wasn't specified), but instead just verifying that it doesn't > contain any directives that were too new to work with the remote rsync. > > Attached is the fix. > > ..wayne.. > --- exclude.c 7 Apr 2005 18:06:06 -0000 1.115 > +++ exclude.c 26 Apr 2005 15:18:45 -0000 > @@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ static void send_rules(int f_out, struct > && !(ent->match_flags & MATCHFLG_MERGE_FILE)) { > int f = am_sender || protocol_version < 29 ? f_out : -1; > send_rules(f, &cvs_filter_list); > - if (f >= 0) > + if (f >= 0 || f_out < 0) > continue; > } > p = get_rule_prefix(ent->match_flags, ent->pattern, 1, &plen); This will be fixed in 2.6.4-4 that I'm now building. Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]