Christian Volker wrote: > Yohoo! > > I'm using rsnapshot-1.3.0-1.el5.rf (from DAG) and rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf (from > CentOS5) together. > > Rsnapshot now starts every task with the "--relative" switch. Without this > switch it will backup all subsequent folders (like /proc and so on) which > isn't desired. So I can't omit the "--relative". > > But there was a bug for rsync prior to 2.6.9 that it won't delete files from > the destination directory when "--relative" and "--delete" are used together. > See at http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9-NEWS for this. > > Now I figured out that this bug is fixed in FedoraCore5. See > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-February/msg00105 > .html The version there is rsync-2.6.9-1.FC5.1. > > In CentOS5 I have rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf > > Now my question is if this bug is fixed in CentOS5/ RHEL5? > > If not, is there something scheduled to fix it or should I build the rsync > package from the source of the FC5 tree? > > Thanks! > > Christian Volker I am not sure if it is fixed in CentOS-5 or not, but that is not relevant since you are NOT using the CentOS-5 rsync. rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf ... the rf stands for RPMForge .. so, that is the RPMForge version of rsync. rsync-2.6.8-3.1 <== that is the version of rsync from CentOS-5. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071026/4672b4c4/attachment-0005.sig>