If one is rsyncing a machine without selinux (therefore no security.selinux xattr on each file), to a system that has selinux (even in permissive mode), rsync doesn't play nice.
basically selinux seems to make it appear that every file has security.selinux xattr on each file (I think this is virtually if there's no physical attribute, as if one disables selinux, the attribute disappears). rsync sees that on the temp file it created there is an xattr which is not on the source file and therefore tries to remove it, but this fails, which causes rsync to believe it failed as well. It be nice if there was way to tell rsync to ignore some xattrs that might be automatically created on the destination while still allowing xattr syncing.
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