Your message dated Sat, 3 Apr 2010 17:33:33 +0200
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line invocation issue
has caused the Debian Bug report #576345,
regarding rsync: dry run (-n) does not work
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected]
immediately.)
--
576345: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576345
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---
Package: rsync
Version: 3.0.3-2
Severity: normal
afaict
rsync -avn from to
performs
ls -r from
that is, it lists files recursively, regardless of them existing on the
other side or not.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (295,
'experimental'), (290, 'stable-i386'), (280, 'testing-i386'), (270,
'unstable-i386'), (150, 'experimental-i386'), (70, 'oldstable-i386'), (70,
'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii base-files 5lenny5 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libpopt0 1.15-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
rsync recommends no packages.
Versions of packages rsync suggests:
ii openssh-client 1:5.1p1-5 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii openssh-server 1:5.1p1-5 secure shell server, an rshd repla
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
I had a typo in the target (which is hard to detect with rsync output)
and on other occasions I had space in the directory name (which fails
without special invocation arguments).
While it is confusing it and not quite obvious what is going on from
the rsync output this is not a bug in rsync.
--- End Message ---
