symlinks?

[Dan Stromberg]

--force appears to take care of this.

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 06:23:08PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> I'm trying to switch to using rsync for updating a huge software library
> containing binaries, text files, symlinks, and so on.  We've been using
> something homegrown which I'm not that happy with - it's a perl script
> that systems cp and chmod and such.
> 
> The problem I'm seeing is:
> 
> target computer:
> 	directories ctime-5 and ctime-5b3 are distinct directories
> 
> source computer:
> 	ctime-5 is a symlink that points at ctime-5b3
> 
> When I do:
> 	/export/home/dcslib/rsync -abvx rsync://okazaki.acs.uci.edu/sun4-5 .
> 
> I unfortunately get:
> 	delete_file: rmdir(packages/ctime-5.0) : File exists
> 	rsync: symlink "packages/ctime-5.0" -> "ctime-5.0b3": File exists
> 	rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(883)
> 
> Is there a reasonably simple way around this?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> -- 
> Dan Stromberg                                               UCI/NACS/DCS
> 
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Dan Stromberg                                               UCI/NACS/DCS
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