On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:01:18PM +0100, Mark Santcroos wrote: > I was glad to see a new version of rsync because I though that it was kind > of dead. :-) > > Anyway, I just checked and noticed that the following isn't fixed yet, or > is considered a feature. > > When run in dry-run mode, rsync doesnt report diffs in permissions and > ownership. IMHO this is not the expected and wanted behaviour, I want to > see exactly what it would do without the '-n'.
Your way sounds right to me. Dry-run mode has a lot of inconsistencies. > I have patches for this vs. 2.4.6, I can recreate them vs. 2.5.0 if you > like. It will be up to Martin Pool to integrate it, but if you do make a new patch do it against the latest "2.5.1preN" version on the rsync download site. 2.5.1 should be coming out soon. > In the case that is is considered a feature for some people, can we maybe > make it a runtime switch? Please, not another runtime switch. - Dave Dykstra