Re: Using Debian GNU/Linux as base for commercial linux

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

> Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes:
> 
> > On the downside, rsyncd currently uses more memory than ftpd,
> > because it puts the entire directory tree into memory at once AFAIK.
> 
> I'm also having a hard time figuring out how to do what I want with
> its globbing mechanism.  Say you wanted to ignore all the dists, but
> i386 and source, the straigtforward thing to say would be:
> 
> + */binary-i386/
> + */binary-i386
> + */binary-all/
> + */binary-all
> - */binary-*
> 
> (you have to duplicate the entries because you want to get/ignore
> symlinks or directories)
> 
> However, with these rules, if someone uploads a new package named
> binary-frobnicator-2.44.1-2 you'll ignore it.  Unless I'm missing
> something obvious, this is another case where globs are not the right
> tool for the job.
> 
> What I really want to say is:
> 
> + .*/binary-(i386|all)/?
> - .*/binary-[^/]*/?

How does that fail to exclude  binary-frobnicator-2.44.1-2  ?

Seems like the  ``-'' pattern still matches to me.

I agree that regexps would be nice as an option --- I think it's been 
mentioned on the rsync list --- feel free to raise it again.

Cheers, Phil.