CentOS - Oct 2007 - rsync bug with --relative and --delete fixed in CentOS5?

Yohoo!

I'm using rsnapshot-1.3.0-1.el5.rf (from DAG) and rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf (from
CentOS5) together.

Rsnapshot now starts every task with the "--relative" switch. Without
this
switch it will backup all subsequent folders (like /proc and so on) which
isn't desired. So I can't omit the "--relative".

But there was a bug for rsync prior to 2.6.9 that it won't delete files from
the destination directory when "--relative" and "--delete"
are used together.
See at http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9-NEWS for this.

Now I figured out that this bug is fixed in FedoraCore5. See
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-February/msg00105
.html The version there is rsync-2.6.9-1.FC5.1.

In CentOS5 I have rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf

Now my question is if this bug is fixed in CentOS5/ RHEL5?

If not, is there something scheduled to fix it or should I build the rsync
package from the source of the FC5 tree?

Thanks!

Christian Volker

Technical Support Engineer
-- 
Parnell House, Barrack Square, Ballincollig, Co. Cork, Ireland

Christian Volker wrote:
> Yohoo!
> 
> I'm using rsnapshot-1.3.0-1.el5.rf (from DAG) and rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf
(from
> CentOS5) together.
> 
> Rsnapshot now starts every task with the "--relative" switch.
Without this
> switch it will backup all subsequent folders (like /proc and so on) which
> isn't desired. So I can't omit the "--relative".
> 
> But there was a bug for rsync prior to 2.6.9 that it won't delete files
from
> the destination directory when "--relative" and
"--delete" are used together.
> See at http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9-NEWS for this.
> 
> Now I figured out that this bug is fixed in FedoraCore5. See
>
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-February/msg00105
> .html The version there is rsync-2.6.9-1.FC5.1.
> 
> In CentOS5 I have rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf
> 
> Now my question is if this bug is fixed in CentOS5/ RHEL5?
> 
> If not, is there something scheduled to fix it or should I build the rsync
> package from the source of the FC5 tree?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Christian Volker
I am not sure if it is fixed in CentOS-5 or not, but that is not
relevant since you are NOT using the CentOS-5 rsync.

rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf ... the rf stands for RPMForge .. so, that is the
RPMForge version of rsync.

rsync-2.6.8-3.1 <== that is the version of rsync from CentOS-5.



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Yohoo!

>> In CentOS5 I have rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf
>> Now my question is if this bug is fixed in CentOS5/ RHEL5?
>I am not sure if it is fixed in CentOS-5 or not, but that is not
>relevant since you are NOT using the CentOS-5 rsync.
>rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf ... the rf stands for RPMForge .. so, that is the
>RPMForge version of rsync.
>rsync-2.6.8-3.1 <== that is the version of rsync from CentOS-5.
You're right!
I wasn't aware that this is the version from RPMForge. On the source server
there was still the CentOS one 2.6.8 WITH the bug.

So the solution is:

Original rsync-2.6.8-3.1 has still this bug.
DAG rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf has fixed this bug.

With the newer version on both sides it now works fine!

Thanks for the hint.

Christian Volker
Technical Support Engineer

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Ballincollig, Co. Cork
Ireland