Re: parallel does not preserve symlinked directory structure on remote

[Ole Tange]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk> wrote:

> My worry would be if old rsync do not support -K. In that case GNU
> Parallel would be incompatible with old versions. But it seems -K was
> supported back to before version 2.0.0, so that is not an issue.
>
> Fixed in Git.

But it proved not to be the case, and my worry was justified:

-K --keep-dirlinks was introduced in version 2.6.3. Date: Sat Jun 5
16:16:30 2004.

and Redhat 9 runs:

$ rsync --version
rsync version 2.5.5 protocol version 26

Centos 3 runs:

$ rsync --version
rsync version 2.5.7 protocol version 26

What do we do?

Not support Redhat 9/Centos 3?

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51293


/Ole