https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10989
Bug ID: 10989
Summary: "copying unsafe symlink" warning should not occur if
file is not changing
Product: rsync
Version: 3.1.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P5
Component: core
Assignee: way...@samba.org
Reporter: jim.av...@gmail.com
QA Contact: rsync...@samba.org
rsync recently began issuing "copying unsafe symlink" warnings with --verbose
even if the file in question has not changed in any way. This pollutes the
output so you can't easily see what *has* changed. for example, I update a
web server tree which contains many symlinks to files outside the source tree
on the source machine (and which are copied as plain files to the destination,
as expected). Now every time I run rsync to do an update, I see a warning for
every one of those files, even though nothing has changed in any way.
So I'm requesting that rsync NOT issue that warning except when the destination
file does not exist or is changing (i.e. content, permissions, or something)
But NOT if nothing has changed at all.
I'll attach a demo script which shows the problem (with rsync 3.1.1 on Ubuntu
14.10 64bit).
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