I'm experiencing the same problem.
The only reason why it got to the list was because I specifically added
the list as a to field.
You using netscape?
Eugenio Diaz wrote:
> Yes it should, and I must say it is a good idea, but
> still it would be nice to have it as part of the
> features in rsync.
>
> I have been doing some thinking, and I don't know if
> this would be possible at all, since I do not know if
> rsync really patches files (anyone knows the inner
> workings?) or if it just "completes" partially
> downloaded files based on length and checksums.
>
> By the way, for some reason, the emails you post to
> the list have your email in the "Reply-to" field
> instead of the cooker list email, and when I reply it
> gets sent to you instead of to the list. Lately I
> haven't been seeing my reply posts show up in the
> list, but just realixe this may be the culprit. I
> thought the list should re-write the "Reply-to" field
> to contain the list email. Why didn't this happened to
> your email? Do you have a reply-to address set in your
> email client? If, so, could this be a bug on the list
> software or am I totally confused?
>
> List maintainers, any ideas?
>
> --- Alwyn Schoeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well another solution could to run a script before
> > rsyncing that does
> > the following:
> > 1) Get a new directory listing from the server.
> > 2) Compare it with the current local listing.
> > 3) Rename local files that differ only in version
> > number, to the same
> > version as the remote files.
> > 4) Run rsync.
> >
> > Should work?
> >
> > > I think it only does that if the filename is the
> > same,
> > > which means it does nothing for the idea of the
> > > original poster; that is, saving download time by
> > only
> > > transmitting the delta from different releases of
> > a
> > > package. May be this could be a good idea to
> > suggest
> > > to maintainers of rsync; I mean having a new
> > option
> > > that would let you use pattern matching or a file
> > list
> > > ("equivalents file list" as in "exclusion or
> > inclusion
> > > file list") to indicate files to be synced, as
> > opposed
> > > to deleted an redownloaded, for example:
> > >
> > > gnome-*-*.rpm
> > >
> > > actually this is a bad example since because I
> > used
> > > the "*", "gnome-1.0.50-1.i586.rpm" will not only
> > match
> > > "gnome-1.0.50-2.i586.rpm" but also
> > > "gnome-utils-1.0.50-2.i586.rpm", but if you use
> > the
> > > correct regex (I don't know how to use regex)
> > instead
> > > of the "*" for the pattern matching, it would work
> > > fine.
> > >
> > > I think, this would be a nice feature to be added
> > to
> > > rsync.
> > >
> > > --- Alwyn Schoeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Rsync does the same, am I right?
> > > >
> > > > Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Alwyn Schoeman wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I was a thinking,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > How much difference do you think exists
> > between
>
> =====
> Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
> Linux Engineer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Alwyn Schoeman
Systems Engineer
Prism Secure Solutions
