DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7618] Symlink permissions disqualify --link-dest even when they can't be set

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7618


matt at mattmccutchen.net changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|symlinks and --link-dest    |Symlink permissions
                   |                            |disqualify --link-dest even
                   |                            |when they can't be set




------- Comment #19 from matt at mattmccutchen.net  2010-08-15 12:37 CST -------
(In reply to comment #17)
> hpuh:/home/zumrova # ls -l .tsm
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys             13 Mar 23  2006 .tsm -> /usr/tsm/.tsm

So that's it.  Unfortunately, the only workarounds I can offer are to exclude
the symlink or recreate it on the source with 777 permissions by setting your
umask to 0.

> But then I would expect rsync to consider the symlink changed every time, not
> only when running with --link-dest.

I should have been clearer.  Treating differences in symlink permissions as
significant even on systems where they can't be set is not the expected
behavior, it is a bug specific to --link-dest.


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