Re: atomic transaction set option to rsync

2005-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:51:23AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > > In the past I could say smt. like: > > > > rsync -a dir1/ dir2/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/remote-dir/ > > > > and it would process first dir1 and then dir2. > > The filenames read in from dir

Re: atomic transaction set option to rsync

2005-01-03 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:51:23AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > In the past I could say smt. like: > > rsync -a dir1/ dir2/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/remote-dir/ > > and it would process first dir1 and then dir2. The filenames read in from dir1 and dir2 have always been sorted into a single list of

Re: atomic transaction set option to rsync

2005-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:39:19PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > > With newer rsyncs, rsync seems to sort the transaction set, so I > > cannot longer use this trick to have the metadata uploaded just after > > the data in the same transaction set. > > Rsync

Re: atomic transaction set option to rsync

2005-01-03 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:39:19PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > With newer rsyncs, rsync seems to sort the transaction set, so I > cannot longer use this trick to have the metadata uploaded just after > the data in the same transaction set. Rsync has always sorted the list of files to be sent, so th

Re: atomic transaction set option to rsync

2005-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Steve Bonds wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:39:19 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers dag-at-wieers.com wrote: > > > There are other ways to work around it, either by uploading in different > > steps (which is impractical in my scenario) or by using a staging area > > (which is impossible a

Re: atomic transaction set option to rsync

2005-01-03 Thread Steve Bonds
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:39:19 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers dag-at-wieers.com wrote: > Apparently a change of behaviour from rsync 2.5 to rsync 2.6 affected the > way I worked. I provide RPM repositories that I mirror using rsync. It is > important to have the repository meta-data in sync with the data ot

atomic transaction set option to rsync

2005-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, Apparently a change of behaviour from rsync 2.5 to rsync 2.6 affected the way I worked. I provide RPM repositories that I mirror using rsync. It is important to have the repository meta-data in sync with the data otherwise people have errors using Yum or Apt. In the old days (with older rs