A very userful rsync patch is missing. The --copy-devices patch, which can copy raw device contents over the wire (like for backup whole hard drives), the opposite of --devices. No other application on portage tree can do that straightforward. The patch (already in Fedora since 2009): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494313 More users asking for that: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-915254-view-previous.html Thanks! :) Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 320028 [details, diff] Patch for rsync 3.0.9 The easier patch shortcut (clean). More handsome rsync patches here: http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.0.9.tar.gz
+1000 verified working. definitely recommended to add.
Patch needs s/a\//a\/rsync-3.1.1\//g and same for b/. Not sure if there's a Gentoo way for oneshot application of a patch that diffs just a/file.c
Is there any blocker moving this forward?
Note that write-devices patch would also be needed to do the reverse.
(In reply to insurgo from comment #5) > Note that write-devices patch would also be needed to do the reverse. Since you posted this, support for the --write-devices option was added by version 3.2.0. Unfortunately, support for --copy-devices remains as a separate patch.