Hadmut Danisch wrote: > I'd like to suggest a new feature to rsync. > I am mirroring a debian archive, but unfortunately, > debian mixes all files of several distributions in a > subtree /pool. There is no way to select only the files > of a certain distribution through a simple exclude/include > expression. > > There is a tool called debmirror, which first downloads > the distribution index files, extracts all the filenames/paths > of the files needed and then calls rsync for every single file. > Thats certainly not useful, especially since rsync shows the > servers motd for every single file.
I was about to suggest: $ rsync --include-from=list-file --exclude=\* but of course that will exclude the parent directories of files you want, causing them to be ignored. This might work: $ rsync --include-from=list-file --include=\*\*/ --exclude=\* although it will mirror the entire directory structure (but not unspecified files). Probably, rsync should be taught that: "If I explicitly include a file, look for it explicitly, even if I've excluded a parent directory." Max. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
