rsync displays an number of errors when rysncing on gentoo

[Matt McCutchen]

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:17 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 16:06 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > 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".

I don't know what you believe I am overlooking.  Anyway, right now I
don't see any way your command could result in the error eial saw, and I
don't see the benefit of spending any more effort on this angle unless
we get more information from eial.

Matt