Hi,
I'd like to suggest a new feature to rsync.
Problem:
Currently, rsync generates a recursive list of file
existing a the source directory, modifies this list by
includes and excludes, and then copies these files.
That's pretty good in most, but not all cases.
I am mirroring a debian archive,
Might it be possible to take the file list that you want to feed to
rsync and turn it into an rsync.conf file?
A simple bash script could create the config file and call rsync (with
the --config= to specify the temporary config file)
Something like this (syntax most likely is wrong, haven't tes
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
>
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 thr
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:28:37AM -0600, Edward King wrote:
> Might it be possible to take the file list that you want to feed to
> rsync and turn it into an rsync.conf file?
It might be possible, but maybe it is ambiguous and definitely not
efficient, since --include defines a Pattern, not a fi
Hi,
I just sent an answer to Edward's similar suggestion to the list.
regards
Hadmut
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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
l
Dave Dykstra wrote
> 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 w
