Problems with installation from using rsync download on win10

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 04:40:17PM +0100, Uwe Siart wrote:
> Pablo González L <pablgonz at educarchile.cl> writes:
> 
> > And there is only the option to install it directly from the Internet.
> > I have made the attempt with several downloads from the available
> > mirrors and the result is the same, with previous versions
> > (2017,2018,2019) I could do this.
> >
> > Any idea what is wrong?
> 
> It could be related to the newly introduced versioned archive files and
> the symlinks that map filenames with revision numbers to filenames that
> do not change.
> 
> I think the installer relies on those symlinks and maybe these symlinks
> don't work in Windows.
> 
> But I'm not an expert here. It could just as well be something
> completely different.

When the versioned archives were introduced, I also tested WSL
rsync but did not get it to work either. Normally, I rsync under
linux. My windows VMs have no trouble with the results.

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Siep Kroonenberg