odd behaviour change (2.6.3 > 2.6.4pre3)

[Erik Jan Tromp]

Synopsis: Prior to the 2.6.4pre versions, issuing 'rsync rsync://host/module/' behaved effectively as 'ls -l'. I've toyed with various options in an attempt to get an 'ls -l' style output, but to no avail.

As I have a small handful of scripts that rely on this no-longer-functioning functionality, this could be considered a Bad Thing(TM).

Following is an example of what I've described.

# rsync 2.6.3 on both lithium & helium

[erik at lithium ~]$ rsync-2.6.3 rsync://helium/slackware/
<snip motd>
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2005/03/10 00:56:46 .
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2004/10/31 23:34:38 slackware-10.0
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2005/02/03 22:59:40 slackware-10.1
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2005/02/06 21:11:35 slackware-10.1-iso
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2004/10/31 23:27:51 slackware-8.1
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2004/10/31 23:30:55 slackware-9.0
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2004/10/31 23:32:46 slackware-9.1
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2005/03/10 00:24:42 slackware-current

# log snippet from helium

Mar 16 19:07:46 helium rsyncd[8959]: rsync on slackware/ from lithium (192.168.1.3)
Mar 16 19:07:46 helium rsyncd[8959]: wrote 572 bytes  read 77 bytes  total size 0

# rsync 2.6.4pre3 on lithium, 2.6.3 on helium

[erik at lithium ~]$ rsync-2.6.4pre3 rsync://helium/slackware/
<snip motd>
skipping directory /.
client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option?

# log snippet from helium
Mar 16 19:09:56 helium rsyncd[8971]: rsync on slackware/ from lithium (192.168.1.3)
Mar 16 19:09:56 helium rsyncd[8971]: skipping directory /.

Erik