Log message:
Update to 2.6.8:
NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (22 Apr 2006)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.7:
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
is in effect.
- Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
the EOF. (This can happen when using stunnel).
- Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position
beyond the failed read's data.
- Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being \
honored
in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
init).
- If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
instead of silently ignoring the option.
- Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as
fifos) from being linked.
- The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at
configure time instead of at runtime. This fixes a bug with --link-dest
creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
- When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
message.
- Improved the documentation for the --owner and --group options.
- The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.
- A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to \
restore the
attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
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Log message:
Update to 2.6.7, tron@ ok:
NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (11 Mar 2006)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.6:
OUTPUT CHANGES:
- The letter 'D' in the itemized output was being used for both devices
(character or block) as well as other special files (such as fifos and
named sockets). This has changed to separate non-device special files
under the 'S' designation (e.g. "cS+++++++ path/fifo"). See also the
"--specials" option, below.
- The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed. First, rsync
now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in
your current locale, allowing it to escape fewer characters than before
for a locale such as UTF-8. Second, it now uses an escape idiom of
"\#123", which is the literal string "\#" followed by \
exactly 3 octal
digits. Rsync no longer doubles a backslash character in a filename
(e.g. it used to output "foo\\bar" when copying \
"foo\bar") -- now it only
escapes a backslash that is followed by a hash-sign and 3 digits (0-9)
(e.g. it will output "foo\#134#789" when copying \
"foo\#789"). See also
the --8-bit-output (-8) option, mentioned below.
Script writers: the local rsync is the one that outputs escaped names,
so if you need to support unescaping of filenames for older rsyncs, I'd
suggest that you parse the output of "rsync --version" and only \
use the
old unescaping rules for 2.6.5 and 2.6.6.
BUG FIXES:
(LOTS)
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files that
are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new files).
- Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
transfer.
- Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
- Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size to
allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples of 1024)
and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
- Added the --8-bit-output (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping
high-bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale.
- The new option --human-readable (-h) changes the output of --progress,
--stats, and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. If repeated,
the units become powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000. (The old
meaning of -h, as a shorthand for --help, still works as long as you
just use it on its own, as in "rsync -h".)
- If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
preservation of attributes on symlinks.
- The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when possible).
- Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer \
exec" and
"post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a \
per-module
basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode transfer. (See
the man page for a list of the environment variables that are set with
information about the transfer.)
- When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only
replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
- Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override unwanted
implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka \
"--archive
--no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of file ownership
that is implied by -a.
- Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions to
be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
- Added the "incoming chmod" and "outgoing chmod" daemon \
options that allow
a module to specify what permissions changes should be applied to all
files copied to and from the daemon.
- Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, which
sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
- If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will now
delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
- If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and without
--delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure \
that files
with the backup suffix are not deleted.
- The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
"(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file
to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of
a total of 9999.
- The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 trailing
stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the content below the
dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
- Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync
discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This makes it
easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and end up with
just the directories needed to hold the resulting files.
- If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes
unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without all
the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, the
client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote rsync only
needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files.
- Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy non-device special
files (which rsync now attempts even as a normal user). The --devices
option now requests the copying of just devices (character and block).
The -D option still requests both (e.g. --devices and --specials), -a
still implies -D, and non-root users still get a silent downgrade that
omits device copying.
- Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super-user
activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such as devices
to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0, and is also
useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will be output if the
receiving rsync isn't being run as root.
- Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the TCP
options used to contact a daemon rsync.
- Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir
setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when
--temp-dir is not being used because space is tight).
- A new support script, files-to-excludes, will transform a list of files
into a set of include/exclude directives that will copy those files.
- A new option, --executability (-E) can be used to preserve just the
execute bit on files, for those times when using the --perms option is
not desired.
- The daemon now logs each connection and also each module-list request
that it receives.
- New log-format options: %M (modtime), %U (uid), %G (gid), and %B
(permission bits, e.g. "rwxr-xrwt").
- The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose.
- The --remove-sent-files option now does a better job of incrementally
removing the sent files on the sending side (older versions tended to
clump up all the removals at the end).
- A daemon now supersedes its minimal SIGCHLD handler with the standard
PID-remembering version after forking. This ensures that the generator
can get the child-exit status from the receiver.
- Use of the --bwlimit option no longer interferes with the remote rsync
sending error messages about invalid/refused options.
- Rsync no longer returns a usage error when used with one local source arg
and no destination: this now implies the --list-only option, just like
the comparable situation with a remote source arg.
- Added the --copy-dirlinks option, a more limited version of --copy-links.
- Various documentation improvements, including: a better synopsis, some
improved examples, a better discussion of the presence and absence of
--perms (including how it interacts with the new --executability and
--chmod options), an extended discussion of --temp-dir, an improved
discussion of --partial-dir, a better description of rsync's pattern
matching characters, an improved --no-implied-dirs section, and the
documenting of what the --stats option outputs.
- Various new and updated diffs in the patches dir, including: acls.diff,
xattrs.diff, atimes.diff, detect-renamed.diff, and slp.diff.
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