Re: ..rsync: opendir "/.~tmp~" (in debian) failed: Permission denied (13) ???

[carlos@fisica.ufpr.br (Carlos Carvalho)]

Arnt Karlsen (arnt@c2i.net) wrote on 24 January 2009 00:36:
 >..what's the deal with these "/.~tmp~" in /debian/.|dist|doc|indices??? 
 >I get :arnt@2p3:/media/hda1/arnt/ppp$ tail -f \
 >/var/www/debspeilog/debian-mirror.log 
 >receiving file list ... done
 >
 >sent 1495 bytes  received 6613275 bytes  27054.27 bytes/sec
 >total size is 152389216057  speedup is 23037.72
 >receiving file list ... 
 >rsync: opendir 
 >"/dists/etch-proposed-updates/main/binary-i386/.~tmp~" 
 >(in debian) failed: Permission denied (13) 
 >rsync: opendir "/dists/etch-proposed-updates/main/source/.~tmp~" 
 >(in debian) failed: Permission denied (13) 
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 >..yes, the old script, no public site yet, working nice all 
 >the way until now.

Yes, that's exactly the answer :-) The official script doesn't have
this problem. And it's even explained in the comments...