rsync displays an number of errors when rysncing on gentoo

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 16:06 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > while anything is possible, i highly doubt it.  emerge-webrsync
> > basically
> > unpacks a tarball and then uses rsync to copy that src tree to the dest
> > tree /usr/portage.
>
> [...]
>
> > 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".
-mike
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