From a17e119d8ba47c7b795d985265fa34072d8b5d32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 06:54:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the latest fixes. --- NEWS | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2ce84a23..0d5ced6e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the module's hierarchy. - - Fixed a overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --*-dest - options (--link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest): if the copy's - destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, these - options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references (since - these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code + - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest, + --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if + the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, + these options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references + (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy. @@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: receiving files.) - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I - or --size-only is specified. + is specified. + + - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync + will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file + regardless of the file's modify-time. - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps -- 2.34.1