Deprecating scp [LWN.net]

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 5, 2020 21:57 UTC (Thu) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418)
Parent article: Deprecating scp

"scp file host:" where host:file already exists will keep the same permissions and owner. Is that possible with rsync? I spent a few minutes looking and it didn't seem possible but I'm not confident since I didn't comb the entire massive man page.

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Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 5, 2020 22:12 UTC (Thu) by heftig (subscriber, #73632) [Link] (6 responses)

"rsync --inplace file host:" seems to do what you want.

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 5, 2020 22:43 UTC (Thu) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418) [Link] (5 responses)

Thank you! I would love it if someone wrote a document to translate scp to rsync. I googled and the only especially useful I saw was https://fedoramagazine.org/scp-users-migration-guide-to-r... , which has comments closed, no way to suggest any improvements, I googled the authors name and came up with nothing, and the license is nonfree. It feels like I've hit this situation a million times. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.en.html

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 11:16 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

Fedora Magazine content is http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Not sure why you consider that nonfree?

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 13:51 UTC (Fri) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418) [Link] (1 responses)

> Not sure why you consider that nonfree?

The page has no license. Looking more closely, there is a link to a terms and conditions, which states "Red Hat original content" is CC-BY-SA, but not other content. This page has no indication that it is "Red Hat original content" so, still no license which means nonfree.

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 9, 2020 16:18 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Looks like they would need to clarify this

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/improving-license-...

The intent is for all the content to be under the same free content license

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 17:27 UTC (Fri) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link] (1 responses)

It would also be great if rsync could be relicenced to a BSD-style licence :/

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 17:46 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Don't know why you want that but there is openrsync