Re: parallel does not preserve symlinked directory structure on remote

[Hubert Kowalski]

My recommenation would be to drop this concerns and thus drop compatibility with Redhat 9 and CentOS 3. Both redhat 9 and centos 3 are ancient by any means. Redhat 9 was released in 2003 and Centos 3 was released in 2004. I can't find anything about RedHat 9, but "next" RHEL (RHEL 3) had definitive end of life in 2014. Centos 3 was EOLed in 2010.

> Dnia 22 lipiec 2017 o 00:40 Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk> napisał(a):
> 
> 
> 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
>