On Apr 5, 10:49 am, Huge <H...@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> On 2007-04-05, Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org> wrote:

> pkg-get install rsync
>
> Not hard ...

I live in absolute terror of pkg-get (at least the blastwave one). 3
times out of 10 it will do what you want, 6 times out of 10 it will
install a new version of gnome and/or libc which it will take a day to
excise from the machin, once out of 10 you will need an exorcist,
bleach and a flamethrower.

--tim

(yes, I know, it's not really that bad and what it's trying to do
makes sense in context.)

On 2007-04-05, Tim Bradshaw <tfb+google@tfeb.org> wrote:
> On Apr 5, 10:49 am, Huge <H...@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2007-04-05, Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org> wrote:
>
>> pkg-get install rsync
>>
>> Not hard ...
>
> I live in absolute terror of pkg-get (at least the blastwave one). 3
> times out of 10 it will do what you want, 6 times out of 10 it will
> install a new version of gnome and/or libc which it will take a day to
> excise from the machin, once out of 10 you will need an exorcist,
> bleach and a flamethrower.

It does have a habit of installing 200Gb of stuff when all you wanted
was a new version of "less", I admit, but it's never broken anything
here, and since it uses its own libraries and directory trees, it's
easy enough to remove.

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Huge wrote:
> On 2007-04-05, Tim Bradshaw <tfb+google@tfeb.org> wrote:
>
>>On Apr 5, 10:49 am, Huge <H...@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>On 2007-04-05, Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org> wrote:
>>
>>>pkg-get install rsync
>>>
>>>Not hard ...
>>
>>I live in absolute terror of pkg-get (at least the blastwave one). 3
>>times out of 10 it will do what you want, 6 times out of 10 it will
>>install a new version of gnome and/or libc which it will take a day to
>>excise from the machin, once out of 10 you will need an exorcist,
>>bleach and a flamethrower.
>
>
> It does have a habit of installing 200Gb of stuff when all you wanted
> was a new version of "less", I admit, but it's never broken anything
> here, and since it uses its own libraries and directory trees, it's
> easy enough to remove.
>

Took your advice and built rsync. Couldn't find a binary for sol8, so
downloaded the source and it built (only one warning !) and was running
in about 15 minutes. It appears to copy the whole tree on the first run
through identical src/dst trees, but nothing on a second run. Still
thinking about the script though - puzzle. find $1 -newer $2 > files
will pull out the differences, but still work to do building the args to
cp.

The systems here need very little sysadmin, so never really spend enough
time to get up to speed on scripting. Have Kernighan and Pike, sed & awk
and the man pages and that's about it, so a good book on scripting
wouldn't be a bad idea...

Chris


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On 2007-04-05 23:15:23 +0100, ChrisQuayle <nospam@devnul.co.uk> said:

> Took your advice and built rsync. Couldn't find a binary for sol8, so
> downloaded the source and it built (only one warning !) and was running
> in about 15 minutes.

http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc8.html#rsync

> It appears to copy the whole tree on the first run through identical
> src/dst trees, but nothing on a second run.

That's what it should do.

Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 2007-04-05 23:15:23 +0100, ChrisQuayle <nospam@devnul.co.uk> said:
>
>> Took your advice and built rsync. Couldn't find a binary for sol8, so
>> downloaded the source and it built (only one warning !) and was
>> running in about 15 minutes.
>
>
> http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc8.html#rsync
>
>> It appears to copy the whole tree on the first run through identical
>> src/dst trees, but nothing on a second run.
>
>
> That's what it should do.
>

There was a binary listed, but there were dependencies which looked like
a hassle. Often download, then use pkgadd, but It takes so little time
to do a build from source. It's easier to see what's going on and what
gets put where from a Makefile. As for copy the whole tree, that's fine
- some files didn't get copied. Msg was: chown failed, invalid arg 22,
probably ro files, but will find out.

Approx 13 gbytes rsync ran overnight at 648 K bytes per second from
local drive to local A5100 on Disksuite. The speed hit is probably due
to software raid, which seems to peak at around 1.5 Mbytes second flat out.

Overall, good stuff & many thanks...

Chris


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