Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 15:44:32 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/3120: ghostscript-4.03 package broken ? Message-ID: <27921.859938272@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Apr 1997 15:17:45 PST." <199704012317.PAA02920@austin.polstra.com>
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> > I've now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt (since something like > > this also happened to me last time) that rsync is a piece of shit > > and doesn't work; I will no longer be using or recommending rsync > > for anything. > > C'mon Jordan, be reasonable. "Has a bug" != "is a piece of shit". Erm. Sorry John, but I have to stick with my original verdict. :-) This is not my only problem with it or I might indeed have been inclined towards greater charitability. It just flat-out fails to function in enough obvious ways (and I expect a good syncronization protocol to recover from data corruption on the destination end, just as your good cvsup program does) and it's got some truely pathological attributes like: rsync --archive user@foo:/b/stuff/src /c/archive/src [ oh drat, now that's gone into /c/archive/src/src - try again] rsync --archive user@foo:/b/stuff/src /c/archive [ ah, that's done the trick. Now let's just add --delete so that /c/archive/src doesn't accumulate old bits as time goes on ] rsync --delete --archive user@foo:/b/stuff/src /c/archive [ Why is my disk chattering so much? Hey, what's going on. HEY, STOP! STOP DELETING EVERYTHING IN /c/archive YOU STUPID PROGRAM!! ] :-) > Also, "has a bug" != "will always have the bug", especially if you > save the test case and send it to the authors along with a bug > report. :-) Bug 1: Your target directory handling is bogus. Bug 2: Your change-detection algorithm doesn't appear to work at all. I dunno - that seems fairly tantamout to saying "your software just plain doesn't work" when the item in question is rsync. :-) Jordan
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