On Thu 02 Dec 2010, Zed Pobre wrote:
>
> The problem resolved down to rsync 3.0.3-2 accepting the following:
>
> rsync rsync://<server>::<module>
>
> and 3.0.7-2 does not.
That 3.0.3-2 accepted that syntax was an "undocumented feature".
Nowhere in the documentation does it say that it is OK to mix rsync://
and :: notation. In fact, it explicitly states:
Contacting an rsync daemon directly happens when the source or
destination path contains a double colon (::) separator after a host
specification, OR when an rsync:// URL is specified
Note the "OR" in capital letters.
That said, I agree that it's not nice that rsync has changed what it
accepts as an argument. On the other hand I don't think that a change
that enforces the documented syntax more strongly, such that unrelated
software that used that undocumented syntax is now broken, constitutes a
critical bug in rsync. Perhaps a wishlist bug. The real bug is in the
software that was written without reading the rsync manual carefully.
Paul
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