rsync - Apr 2005 - does --files-from transfer files in the order given?

There are one or two open bug reports in the Debian bug tracking system
that boil down to being able to specify the order files are trasferred.
One example where this is useful is to first transfer the packages, then
the list of packages. That means that the available list of packages is
always consistent, without any packages listed being temporarily
unavailable.

I'm sure Wayne knows this without having to look at the code :-)

If it does, a note in the manpage would be useful.


Paul Slootman

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 03:38:42PM +0200, Paul Slootman
wrote:
> There are one or two open bug reports in the Debian bug tracking system
> that boil down to being able to specify the order files are trasferred.
There is no support in rsync for allowing the user to control the order
the files are transferred in a set of files -- the transfer always
happens in the internal sort order.

..wayne..