On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:04:12AM +0100, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: > Please don't use the -a option for rsync. use -rlptDv instead; we > shouldn't be trouncing the ownership of the destination files, cp > doesn't. I'd also add the --numeric-ids option, which will also prevent > rsync from doing the uid lookups and can greatly speed things up on > systems with no (or slow) nscd's (or slow uid lookups in general).
Fair enough. I doubt we need D (devices) or v (verbose) though. > Do (DESTDIR)$(htdocsdir) and (DESTDIR)$(manualdir) have a trailing "/" > reliably? If not, we need to make the destinations be > "(DESTDIR)$(htdocsdir)/" and (DESTDIR)$(manualdir)/, otherwise on some > systems rsync will behave differently when those destinations are > symlinks otherwise. (it will unlink the symlink and replace it with the > directory heirarchy). Hmm. Okay - will add the trailing slash to the dest dirs too. Thanks! -- justin
