What Hadmut wants is the oft-requested and discussed "files-from" option that I once offered to write but haven't been able to get to. Andy Schor in http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-November/005272.html posted a patch for something similar but it only worked when the sender was on the local machine and not when it was remote (among other issues). I don't believe you've posted your patch, Justin; does your "files-from" directly contain the list of files to send and skip the recursive traversal? If so, I don't see the point of having rsync have the extra regex options you mention because those could all be done by external greps that pre-process the file list.
- Dave On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:51:05AM -0600, Justin Banks wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote > > 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." > > Not too long ago, I modified/mangled rsync to do > > rsync --files-from /some/file --include-regexes /some/regular/expressions \ > --exclude-regexes /some/regular/expressions > > > such that all the files in /some/file would be sent iff they matched the > posix regexes in --include-regexes and didn't match the ones in > --exclude-regexes (if present). > > I don't have a wide variety of platforms to test it on, but it worked okay > on linux, solaris, and irix. > > -justinb -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
