--force appears to take care of this.
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 06:23:08PM -0700, Dan Stromberg
wrote:> I'm trying to switch to using rsync for updating a huge software
library
> containing binaries, text files, symlinks, and so on. We've been using
> something homegrown which I'm not that happy with - it's a perl
script
> that systems cp and chmod and such.
>
> The problem I'm seeing is:
>
> target computer:
> directories ctime-5 and ctime-5b3 are distinct directories
>
> source computer:
> ctime-5 is a symlink that points at ctime-5b3
>
> When I do:
> /export/home/dcslib/rsync -abvx rsync://okazaki.acs.uci.edu/sun4-5 .
>
> I unfortunately get:
> delete_file: rmdir(packages/ctime-5.0) : File exists
> rsync: symlink "packages/ctime-5.0" ->
"ctime-5.0b3": File exists
> rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(883)
>
> Is there a reasonably simple way around this?
>
> TIA.
>
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> Dan Stromberg UCI/NACS/DCS
>
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