On 10/21/19 8:06 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Change FETCHCOMMAND_RSYNC to use '-Lt' over '-a'. Notably, this
> replaces --links with --copy-links option, i.e. makes rsync copy
> underlying files when symlinks are met. This is important since
> we do not transfer symlink targets, therefore '-l'
On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 17:25 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
> > This also removes most of the other options that are irrelevant or even
> > undesirable to distfile fetching, that is:
> > - '-r' since we always fetch a single file, so recursive
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
> This also removes most of the other options that are irrelevant or even
> undesirable to distfile fetching, that is:
> - '-r' since we always fetch a single file, so recursive operation is
> unnecessary
> - '-p', '-o', '-g' since we want to
Change FETCHCOMMAND_RSYNC to use '-Lt' over '-a'. Notably, this
replaces --links with --copy-links option, i.e. makes rsync copy
underlying files when symlinks are met. This is important since
we do not transfer symlink targets, therefore '-l' ends up creating
dangling symlinks.
This also
