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

2006-12-29 Thread Andrew Ferguson
dean gaudet wrote: btw -- adding two syscalls per symlink creation is a bit of a waste for platforms where it doesn't matter. any chance you'd consider adding a test to fs_abilities and conditionalizing on it? Dean, I have added this test and a new symlink_perms global to avoid the

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

2006-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Andrew Ferguson wrote: dean gaudet wrote: btw -- adding two syscalls per symlink creation is a bit of a waste for platforms where it doesn't matter. any chance you'd consider adding a test to fs_abilities and conditionalizing on it? Dean, I have added this

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

2006-11-07 Thread roland
-backup-users] [PATCH] Preserve symlink permissions Thanks, Andrew for those patches and thanks Dean for getting them applied to CVS! Now if only we could get the librsync people to create a new release with the fix for handling files larger than 4GB along with a fresh release of rdiff

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

2006-11-06 Thread Corey Puffalt
Thanks, Andrew for those patches and thanks Dean for getting them applied to CVS! Now if only we could get the librsync people to create a new release with the fix for handling files larger than 4GB along with a fresh release of rdiff-backup... On 11/4/06, Andrew Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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

2006-11-06 Thread David Kempe
I will poke some people I know and see how we go... dave Corey Puffalt wrote: Thanks, Andrew for those patches and thanks Dean for getting them applied to CVS! Now if only we could get the librsync people to create a new release with the fix for handling files larger than 4GB along with a

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 +++

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

2006-11-04 Thread Iain Dooley
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, 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

2006-11-04 Thread Yeroc
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 patched version of rdiff-backup available for download somewhere?

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

2006-11-04 Thread dean gaudet
thanks... applied to both trees. -dean On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, 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

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

2006-11-04 Thread Andrew Ferguson
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 patched version of rdiff-backup available for