On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:02:08AM +0100, Ferran Jorba wrote:
...
> What *did* make a difference is to rsync a single directory, and, thus,
> not using any --exclude directory. Obsolete files (and directories) were
> effectively removed:
>
> rsync \
> --verbose \
> --verbose \
> --verbose \
> --stats \
> --archive \
> --relative \
> --cvs-exclude \
> --delete \
> --delete-exclude \
> --compress \
> --rsh=ssh \
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr /home/fjorba/kiosk/obscured.uab.es/
>
> So, as a workaround, I may have to rsync each of the interesting
> directories. However, my opinion is that this could be considered
> a bug, that would be nice to be fixed.
>
> Do you agree?
No, that doesn't make sense to me. Maybe it is somehow running into a
problem in one of the directories that it isn't reporting, I don't know.
My suspicion is that if you do all the directories one by one you'll find
one of them doesn't delete.
I also suspect that it's going to be very difficult for somebody other than
you to get to the root cause of the problem because nobody else will be
able to reproduce it. I tried making a small example with multiple
directories and your options and it worked fine. If you can come up with a
small example that reproduces the problem then it should be easy for somebody
to come up with a fix.
- Dave Dykstra
