--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. > > -- > Dan Stromberg UCI/NACS/DCS > > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >
-- Dan Stromberg UCI/NACS/DCS
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