Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Preserve symlink permissions

2006-11-05 Thread Kevin Horton
On 4 Nov 2006, at 21:38, Andrew Ferguson wrote: Yeroc wrote: Andrew, I notice you've posted a number of patches to the mailing list that improve the backup functionality of rdiff-backup when running on the Mac. Do you have a site with a collection of all your patches, or even better, a

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Preserve symlink permissions

2006-11-05 Thread Blair Zajac
On Nov 4, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Andrew Ferguson wrote: Hi, Some Unix systems (at least the *BSDs and Mac OS X) set the permission bits on symbolic links to 777 - umask at link creation. This is different from Linux, where all symbolic links are mode 777. This patch changes rdiff-backup's umask

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Preserve symlink permissions

2006-11-05 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Andrew Ferguson wrote: Blair Zajac wrote: diff -Nur rdiff-backup-cvs/rdiff_backup/rpath.py rdiff-backup- symlink-perms/rdiff_backup/rpath.py --- rdiff-backup-cvs/rdiff_backup/rpath.py 2006-01-13 00:29:47.0 -0500 +++