rsync - Oct 2007 - Symlinks in OS X (10.4.1)

Hi,

is there a way to ignore the permissions for symlinks but compare the
permissions for regular files and change them accordingly?

The problem is that using OS X every time I run rsync it tries to update the
permissions for the symlinks but the changes are not made since OS X has no
support for symlink permissions. Therefore it would like to somehow ignore
symlink permissions.


Thanks,
Mario

On Oct 13, 2007, at 8:56 PM, dsp@gmx.org wrote:
> since OS X has no support for symlink permissions
Actually, this isn't quite true. osx has no lchmod, but if you set a  
umask before creating the link, the permissions are set. So, as  
opposed to ignoring the permissions, perhaps we should teach rsync  
how to set them. I'll probably look at this as soon as I'm done  
writing a patch for preserving the creation date.

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 08:56:23PM +0200, dsp@gmx.org
wrote:
> is there a way to ignore the permissions for symlinks but compare the
> permissions for regular files and change them accordingly?
That should be the default for any system that doesn't have lchmod().

..wayne..

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:38:19PM +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra
wrote:
> Someone with an intel mac should test this to check the uint32_t works
> there too (I have a powerpc).
It worked fine for a simple test.

The latest CVS code now has your lchmod() alternative if setattrlist()
is around.  Thanks!  Now we'll see if any unexpected systems are
affected by this change (I'm not expecting any, though).

..wayne..