On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 12:49 +0200, Hendrik Maryns wrote:> I just read the thread
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2004-June/009678.html which
> describes how --keep-dirlinks came to be. My use case is similar, but
> I?d like a similar option for files as well.
>
> Setup: in my public_html I have some symlinks which I send over as
> files, with -L (for various reasons: partly, because they are copies of
> current work which is done elsewhere, or because several websites use
> the same files, such as SSI footers). However, I also want to check
> whether my colleague changed the files on the server, so first I do an
> update. However, this replaces the links with the files themselves.
>
> My current usage is:
>
> # First look whether stuff changed on the other side (shouldn?t)
> # rsync -rtKPuzb webserver:public_html/ /home/hendrik/public_html/Hendrik/
> # Then put changes from here.
> rsync -rtkKLPzC --delete --delete-excluded
> --exclude-from=/home/hendrik/.website-exclude
> /home/hendrik/public_html/Hendrik/ webserver:public_html
>
> As you can see, I have the first line commented out, because it replaces
> symlinks. I?d like something similar to --keep-dirlinks which follows
> links on the receiver and compares the files linked to with those sent.
>
> Is this possible, or is it an RFE?
If files aren't supposed to change directly on the server, it seems to
me that you could just drop the first command, add -uvv to the second
command, watch for any "FILE is newer" messages, and handle those
files
manually. If files do change, consider using the two-way synchronizer
Unison ( http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ ); it can update
files through symlinks, but I don't think it has an equivalent to
--delete-excluded.
A --keep-links option may still be worth having in rsync. Updating a
file atomically through a symlink is nontrivial (one has to readlink the
chain of symlinks and combine the paths to find the ultimate location to
rename to), but Unison implements this, so I don't see why rsync
couldn't.
Matt
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