From 469ff84e29bbd81a75e73d23bd159f3141654cd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:15:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] More NEWS updates and improvements. --- NEWS | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0a48551a..04651c3e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ NEWS for rsync 3.0.1 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 30 (unchanged) Changes since 3.0.0: + NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: + + - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the + itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes, + and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish + between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a + revised version with a new value (e.g. a changed symlink referent, a + new device number, etc.). + BUG FIXES: - Fixed a crash bug when a single-use rsync daemon (via remote shell) was @@ -29,16 +38,16 @@ Changes since 3.0.0: file) was already working. - Fixed an assert failure if --hard-links is combined with an option that - can cause a file in a set of hard-linked files to be skipped (i.e. if - --append, --ignore-existing, etc. affects one or more files in a hard- - linked set of files, but not all of them). + can skip a file in a set of hard-linked files (i.e. --ignore-existing, + --append, etc.), without skipping all the files in the set. - - Avoid setting the time on a directory that already has the modify time - that we're setting. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime. + - Avoid setting the modify time on a directory that already has the right + modify time set. This avoids tweaking the dir's ctime. - - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of excluding - a wider range of path entries. It also sends the user an error about - "missing" files instead of silently ignoring them. + - Improved the daemon-exclude handling to do a better job of applying the + exclude rules to path entries. It also sends the user an error just as + if the files were actually missing (instead of silently ignoring the + user's args). - Fixed some glitches with the dry-run code's missing-directory handling, including a problem when combined with --fuzzy. @@ -49,21 +58,17 @@ Changes since 3.0.0: - Fixed a glitch in the itemizing of permissions with the -E option. - - Added the 'c'-flag to the itemizing of non-regular files so that the - itemized output doesn't get hidden if there were no attribute changes, - and also so that the itemizing of a --copy-links run will distinguish - between copying an identical non-regular file and the creation of a - revised version with a new value (e.g. symlink referent, device - numbers). - - The --append option's restricting of transfers to those that add data no longer prevents the updating of non-content changes to otherwise up-to- date files (i.e. those with the same content but differing permissions, ownership, xattrs, etc.). - Don't allow --fake-super to be specified with -XX (double --xattrs) - because they conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled, it - automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X. + because the options conflict. If a daemon has "fake super" enabled, + it automatically downgrades a -XX request to -X. + + - Fixed a couple bugs in the parsing of daemon-config excludes that could + make a floating exclude rule get treated as matching an absolute path. - A daemon doesn't try to auto-refuse the "iconv" option if iconv-support wasn't compiled in to the daemon (avoiding a warning in the logs). @@ -105,7 +110,7 @@ Changes since 3.0.0: the ACL/xattrs/iconv features. - The configure script now has better checks for figuring out if the - included popt should be used or not. + included popt code should be used or not. - The RPM spec file was updated to have (1) comments for how to use the rsync-patch tar file, and (2) an /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file. -- 2.34.1