[Bug 10989] New: "copying unsafe symlink" warning should not occur if file is not changing

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Fri Dec 5 19:40:08 MST 2014


https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10989

            Bug ID: 10989
           Summary: "copying unsafe symlink" warning should not occur if
                    file is not changing
           Product: rsync
           Version: 3.1.1
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: core
          Assignee: wayned at samba.org
          Reporter: jim.avera at gmail.com
        QA Contact: rsync-qa at samba.org

rsync recently began issuing "copying unsafe symlink" warnings with --verbose
even if the file in question has not changed in any way.   This pollutes the
output so you can't easily see what *has* changed.   for example, I update a
web server tree which contains many symlinks to files outside the source tree
on the source machine (and which are copied as plain files to the destination,
as expected).   Now every time I run rsync to do an update, I see a warning for
every one of those files, even though nothing has changed in any way.

So I'm requesting that rsync NOT issue that warning except when the destination
file does not exist or is changing (i.e. content, permissions, or something) 
But NOT if nothing has changed at all.

I'll attach a demo script which shows the problem (with rsync 3.1.1 on Ubuntu
14.10 64bit).

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