[EXT] pretest 2021 begin

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi all,

in Windows the local dir might need the drive letter but I cannot test
it (I have Windows XP and Windows 7 in virtual machines but without
rsync and with very small disks).

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

pá 26. 2. 2021 v 13:38 odesílatel Norbert Preining
<norbert at preining.info> napsal:
>
> Hi Philip,
>
> > rsync -a --delete --exclude="mactex*" somemirror::/some/path/ /your/local/dir
> >
> > Not being fully awake, I launched CMD but failed to change directory from C:\Windows\System32 to C:\TeX\Live\2021\Pre-test, and as a result, "rsync" attempted to delete everything in (and under) C:\Windows\System32.
>
> No, no, and again no.
>
> Unless you have a very very strange rsync.
>
> > rsync -a --delete --exclude="mactex*" somemirror::/some/path/ /your/local/dir
> >
> > that will report if the current directory is not empty, and either abort unconditionally or, at the very least, await confirmation from the user that he/she realises that everything in and under the current directory is about to be deleted and is happy with this ?
>
> There is no difference in the call, you probably simply misstyped
> something.
>
> (Not that expected anything else from you, though!)
>
> Best
>
> Norbert
>
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