On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:40:43PM +1000, Greg Burley wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> > I want only binary-all/ binary-i386/ and disks-i386
> >
> > My command line looks like:
> > rsync -navvz --exclude-from=rsync_woody_exclude
> > rsync://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/ .
> >
> > I'm trying for a dryrun to see how my exclude rules work
> >
> > cat rsync_woody_exclude
> > binary-alpha/*
> > binary-arm/*
> > binary-m68k/*
> > binary-powerpc/*
> > binary-spark/*
> > disks-alpha/*
> > disks-m68k/*
> > disks-powerpc/*
> > disks-sparc/*
> > source/*
> >
> > But still every damn file on the server turns up in the output,
> > including every thing under the ones supposedly excluded.
> >
> > Also trying with a leading forward slash -- same results.
> >
> > The man page says, well .... point blank really, that this
> will work.
> >
> > o if the pattern ends with a / then it will only
> > match a directory, not a file, link or device.
>
> And it does ... Harry you have a trailing * not a trailing /
> perhaps you should be using the following (as suggested by
> Scott Sharpe's example) :)
>
> cat rsync_woody_exclude
> binary-alpha/
> binary-arm/
> binary-m68k/
> binary-powerpc/
> binary-spark/
> disks-alpha/
> disks-m68k/
> disks-powerpc/
> disks-sparc/
> source/
That should avoid the rsync bug too; the lack of a wildcard will keep it
from using fnmatch.
- Dave
