An alternative behavior for symlink

[Greg Deback (rsync)]

Thank you for your answer, too bad there's no way, but it's understandable.
Have a nice day too,
Greg

Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
>
> Greg Deback (rsync) wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I've been googling a lot but I can't find any suitable solution or
> > advice, so I'm asking you.
> > I'm trying do find a way to sync two distant folders containing
> > symlinks pointing to files outside the synced folders BUT with
> > different target names.
> >
> > Here is an example:
> > ./dir1: (source)
> >  file --> ../data/file
> > ./dir2: (destination)
> >  file --> ../share/other_file
> >
> > The goal would be to update 'share/other_file' with the contents of
> > 'data/file', without modifying the existing 'dir2/file' symlink. I
> > couldn't find any combination of option (--copy-unsafe-links, -l, -L,
> > etc.): either 'dir2/file' symlink is deleted and replaced with a real
> > file, or 'dir2/file' is replaced by a symlink pointing to
> > '../data/file'... that doesn't exist in destination tree.
> >
> > I would really appreciate if anyone had any idea to solve this case.
>
> There's no way. If you want to sync the content of ../data/file to
> ../share/other_file, then you have to do this explicitly.
>
> rsync -aHxi ${source}/../data/file ${destination}/../share/other_file
>
> Have a nice day,
> Berny