rsync - Dec 2001 - permissions in dryrun mode

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'.

I have patches for this vs. 2.4.6, I can recreate them vs. 2.5.0 if you
like.

In the case that is is considered a feature for some people, can we maybe
make it a runtime switch?


Mark

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Mark Santcroos				RIPE Network Coordination Centre
http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/		New Projects Group/TTM

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