Re: rsync permissions errors for mirors

Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Dec 2012 20:38:11 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.jpackage.general
Message-ID <CAOCN9rzVAN0HRvO6OF8D9WuOt45xK_=LuUzFvSvUbdhGHjVGeg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Mark McKinstry <[email protected]> wrote:
> Will,
>
> It's still failing with the same error.
>
> If you want an easy way to duplicate the error, the following will do it for you:
>
> rsync -a rsync://rsync.mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/redhat-el-5.0/ /tmp

That's potentially dangerous  syntax there: May I suggest this, to
avoid confusion about directories being mapped to unexpected
locations?

    rsync -av rsync://rsync.mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/redhat-el-5.0/
/tmp/redhat-3l-5.0/