The excludes should be comma seperated. It's difficult to tell from your post whether or not that is the case. Please send the part of your build.xml that defines the excludes.
-Rob Anderson > -----Original Message----- > From: Tracy Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 2:45 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: at my wits end with delete > > > > I just cannot get this right > > > > I have set up my fileset to exclude a list of directories and delete > everything else > > > > fileset: Setup scanner in dir /opt/stratalight/packages with > patternSet{ > includes: [*/**] excludes: [OS-4000-1.6(B18)Beta/** > OTS-SC-1.6(B18)Beta/** OTS-4010-1.6(B17)Beta/** > OTS-4040-1.6(B17)Beta/** > OTS-4400-1.6(B17)Beta/** OTS-4540-1.6(B17)Beta/** > OTS-4520-1.6(B17)Beta/** OTS-Common-1.6(B18)Beta/** > OTS-4011-1.6(B17)Beta/**] } > > [delete] Deleting > /opt/stratalight/packages/OS-4000-1.6(B18)Beta/OTS-4010/client > Fpga4010.s > lim > > > > But (as you can see) the first thing it deletes is something under one > of my excluded directories. Can someone please point out what I am > doing wrong??? Thanks > > > > Tracy > > > > (ant 1.7.0) > > > > Here's the snippet of code > > > > ${directories} is OS-4000-1.6(B18)Beta/** OTS-SC-1.6(B18)Beta/** > OTS-4010-1.6(B17)Beta/** OTS-4040-1.6(B17)Beta/** > OTS-4400-1.6(B17)Beta/** OTS-4540-1.6(B17)Beta/** > OTS-4520-1.6(B17)Beta/** OTS-Common-1.6(B18)Beta/** > OTS-4011-1.6(B17)Beta/** > > > > <delete includeemptydirs="true" >^M > > <fileset dir="${installation.dir}" > casesensitive="yes"> > > <exclude name="${directories}"/> > > <include name="*/**"/> > > </fileset> > > </delete>^M > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
