change drush rsync for use with aegir

Question

I'm looking to drop the -a flag from the drush's rsync, but not sure what the best place for it as far Aegir is concerned. Would it be the sitename.alias.drushrc.php files in /var/aegir/.drush? Or should this change be configured in /var/aegir/drush/commands/core/rsync.core.inc ? Ideally, it would get set in once place and be effective for all sites, and without impact to other functionality.

The reason I am looking to drop -a flag is to not preserve file ownership when the files are pushed out to clustered web servers -- we keep running to weird file permission issues, when files have different ownership on the Aegir server than the target web servers.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I put this in my drushrc.php file to change the default rsync mode to -rlptz for all sites:

$command_specific['rsync'] = array('mode' => 'rlptz');

You could also put it in each site alias if you did not want the change to be affected on a global basis:

$aliases['mysite'] = array(
  'root' => '/path/to/drupal',
  'uri' => 'mysite.org',
  'command-specific' => array(
    'rsync' => array(
      'mode' => 'rlptvz',
    ),
    'sql-sync' => array(
      'mode' => 'rlptvz',
    ),
  ),
);