rsync - Dec 2004 - rsync and broken symlinks

Hello!

I need a suggestion.
How to copy broken symlink as symlink with rsync?

Example:
# mkdir src
# ln -s file-that-doesnt-exist src/broken-link
# rsync -a src/ dst/
# ls -l src/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Dec 16 10:31 broken-link ->
file-that-doesnt-exist
# ls -l dst
total 0

I want src/ and dst/ to be identical after sync.
-- 
WBR, Yakov Hrebtov                          mailto:jake@generation.ru

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:36:05AM +0500, Yakov Hrebtov
wrote:
> How to copy broken symlink as symlink with rsync?
Your example works fine for me, so run "rsync --version" and ensure
that
it even has symlink support compiled into it.  E.g.:

rsync  version 2.6.3  protocol version 28
Copyright (C) 1996-2004 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
              inplace, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums

If it doesn't mention "symlinks", you'll need to compile a new
version
(rsync depends on the readlink() function for its symlink support, so
make sure that configure defined HAVE_READLINK).

If the output does mention symlinks, try running rsync without -l set
and make sure that it mentions that it is skipping a non-regular file.
Then, try running it something like -v options and ensure that it
appears in the sender's and receiver's file list.

..wayne..