Re: Errors rsync-ing debian mirror
On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 08:30:15 +0200, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:05:02 -0400
> Kevin McKinley <ronin2@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>
> But I notice another problem:
>
> Every time I sync with the mirror it creates in dists/ the symbolic
> links Debian2.2r7, old-proposed-updates and oldstable. Here are the
> relevant EXCLUDES:
>
> --exclude dists/Debian2.2r7/ --exclude dists/old-proposed-updates/ \
> --exclude dists/oldstable/ --exclude dists/potato-proposed-updates/ \
> --exclude dists/potato/ \
>
> Why, oh why does it create these links when I've asked it nicely not to,
> and when there's nothing for them to point at?
Guess:
remove the trailing slash. I think if the exclude has a slash at the
end means to ignore the content of the directory. Have a look at the man
page. I never remember the syntax of rsync excludes.
thomas
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