Re: Macintosh rsync: Inconsistent Behaviour: Hints Appreciated

2009-02-15 Thread Bob McKay
Thank you, both for your advice and your patience! I had assumed that because the built-in version didn't care about EAs, not handling EAs wouldn't matter (i.e. that whatever it did transfer, it would recognise as being the same as the source). Clearly that isn't the case. Apologies for the delay r

Re: Macintosh rsync: Inconsistent Behaviour: Hints Appreciated

2009-02-14 Thread Warren Oates
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Yves Petronin wrote: > I have also used Mike Bombich' very clear instructions foud at > > http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html > in order to compile the folllowing version of rsync on OS10.4.11: > rsync version 3.0.4 protocol version 30 > > I could not ea

Macintosh rsync: Inconsistent Behaviour: Hints Appreciated

2009-02-13 Thread Yves Petronin
I have also used Mike Bombich' very clear instructions foud at http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html in order to compile the folllowing version of rsync on OS10.4.11: rsync version 3.0.4 protocol version 30 I could not easily however find the associated manual to better understand som

Re: Macintosh rsync: Inconsistent Behaviour: Hints Appreciated

2009-02-11 Thread Mike Bombich
You're using the version of rsync that is built-in to Mac OS X. Don't do that. It's a fairly old version (though it is maintained by Apple), and it doesn't handle extended attribute modifications (or lack thereof), thus it transfers them every time. When you have many files with resource

Macintosh rsync: Inconsistent Behaviour: Hints Appreciated

2009-02-11 Thread Bob McKay
I have a problem with rsync on macintosh copying files that have not been updated. Despite careful reading of the archives, I can't find an explanation (or a fix), but I strongly suspect I'm just missing something that an expert will recognise instantly... Your assistance would be greatly appreciat