30 Oct
2003
30 Oct
'03
2:40 p.m.
I believe that portage/emerge uses it, yes.
I find rsync nicer for most of my needs than FTP or scp.
typically what I do is this, to push:
rsync -auv file1 file2 ... user@hostname:/path/to/where/i/want/it
or to pull:
rsync -auv user@hostname:/path/to/something .
It Just Works (tm).
The only subtle gotcha I've found is that
"rsync foo_directory ." does not mean the same thing as
"rsync foo_directory/ ."
... this is explained clearly in the EXAMPLES section of the man page.
Also I generally put this in my /etc/profile:
export RSYNC_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh
Paul,
Thanks. I will save this email for future reference.
Cheers,
Mark