On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:17 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 16:06 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > tar jxf snapshot-xxxxxxxx.tar.bz2 > > > cd snapshot-xxxxxxxx > > > rsync -av --progress --stats --delete --delete-after \ > > > --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/packages' --exclude='/local' \ > > > . /usr/portage > > > > Mike, I don't share your apparent assumption that emerge-webrsync is > > intrinsically less buggy than rsync. In any case, I can only answer for > > the behavior of rsync itself, so I need to know the actual rsync command > > line. The one you gave isn't consistent with the error message, in > > which the absolute path of the missing file doesn't have a component of > > the form "snapshot-xxxxxxxx". > > please re-read the commands i posted. the rsync is from "." > to "/usr/portage".
I don't know what you believe I am overlooking. Anyway, right now I don't see any way your command could result in the error eial saw, and I don't see the benefit of spending any more effort on this angle unless we get more information from eial. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
