Trivial exclude help

[Tom Lanyon]

On 08/07/2009, at 1:05 PM, Tom Lanyon wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Sorry for the exclude question... but I have been trying for hours  
> to get this to work and am utterly baffled.
>
> I'm performing an archive transfer between hosts and wish to include  
> anything in any directory named 'debug' or 'drpms' at any depth. I  
> assumed this would be as simple as --exclude 'debug/***' --exclude  
> 'drpms/***' but I still get files retrieved.
>
> Full option list is:
> rsync -aHi --no-o --delay-updates --delete --delete-excluded -- 
> delete-after --exclude 'drpms/***' --exclude 'debug/***' host1::foo/ 
> bar/ /local/bar
>
> ... and files like these are still retrieved:
>
> .d..t.... debug/
> >f+++++++ debug/AGReader-debuginfo-1.2-5.fc10.x86_64.rpm
>
>
> I've tried many many alternative exclude patterns, tried increasing  
> the debugging level to try and work out how they're still matched  
> and I haven't had any success. Any help very much appreciated.
>
> Please include me on any replies as I'm not subscribed to this list.
>
> Regards,
> Tom


Sorry to pick this up again - wondering if anyone has any ideas or can  
suggest a way to debug this problem? No one on the #rsync IRC channel  
is able to explain this either...

Tom