Re: rsync
> * Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org> [2015-06-23 04:12:00 CEST]:
> > The version of rsync in wheezy (and earlier) has known bugs (--fake-super
> > tries to set xattrs on symlinks, which Linux does not support). Building
> > my own backports seems to require ~100 dependencies, and my current
> > target is embedded (PowerPC), so it's not something I can do myself.
> > Would anyone be able to backport the current rsync to wheezy?
>
> Is the fix for that bug too intrusive to run it through an wheezy
> update? Because backports shouldn't be abused to work around bugs in
> stable. Bug fixes for stable belongs in stable and not in backports.
Probably. The way rsync solved this, is by making the symlinks as plain text
files instead of real symlinks.
Luke
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