From the changelog of rsync 2.6.8: - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as fifos) from being linked. This breaks the --device flag (used by gentoo-rsync) since behavio(u)r has changed from 2.6.7. Removing the "--device" flag seems to work however I have not tested enough to see if there are any negative side effects. If no special files are synced in portage, removing the "--device" flag from /etc/rsync/gentoo-mirror.conf may prove a sufficient workaround until all rsync servers are at 2.6.8 and gentoo-rsync can depend on rsync >=2.6.8. Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa amd64 apache2 audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups curl dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode expat fam foomaticdb fortran gd gif gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde lzw lzw-tiff mad mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xml2 xmms xorg xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
how does it break them ?
Oops, forgot the error message: Started update at Mon May 1 07:07:52 MST 2006 rsync: on remote machine: --no-specials: unknown option rsync error: requested action not supported (code 4) at clientserver.c(520) rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(614) [receiver=2.6.8] After removing the --deep flag, all has been working fine.
(In reply to comment #2) > > After removing the --deep flag, all has been working fine. > ^deep^device removing the --device flag all has been working fine
*** Bug 126785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
upstream bug report has the relevant details (see URL field)
