RW wrote:


thanks - that was it - & natch the order of rsync includes/excludes is 
mentioned in the cryptic man page. so, you need to:
exclude the more specific entry, and then finally include the required 
one last as a generic entry:

- cyrus-sasl-*mysql*
- cyrus-sasl-*db4*
- cyrus-sasl-*postgres*
- cyrus-sasl-*ldap*
cyrus-sasl-*

achieves the required result.

yes it was a bit off topic but i was hoping to see how others did this.
a+
scorch
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>> i am rsyncing -current packages & taking advantage of rsync's pattern 
>> matching to avoid specifying the package versions, to make a local 
>> repository for upgrades.
>>
>> there are several packages that i _don't_ want to retrieve flavours for, 
>> e.g. cyrus-sasl as an example. but i haven't been able to force just the 
>> base package, without specifying identically the filename - which 
>> defeats the purpose of what i was trying to achieve.
>>
>> here's my current go, trimmed to show the specific problem:
>>
>> $ cat snapshot.inc
>> # include file for rsync
>> cvsync-*
>> cyrus-sasl-*
>> - cyrus-sasl-*db*
>> - cyrus-sasl-*mysql*
>> - cyrus-sasl-*ldap*
>> db-4*
>> - *.tgz
>>
>> $ rsync -thrivz --stats --del -n 
>> rsync://rsync.de.openbsd.org/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386 
>> /var/tmp/packages/ --include-from=snapshot.inc 
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>     
>>> f+++++++ i386/cvsync-0.24.19.tgz
>>> f+++++++ i386/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21p2-db4.tgz
>>> f+++++++ i386/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21p2-ldap.tgz
>>> f+++++++ i386/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21p2-mysql.tgz
>>> f+++++++ i386/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21p2.tgz
>>> f+++++++ i386/db-4.2.52p11.tgz
>>> f+++++++ i386/index.txt
>>>       
>> [...]
>>
>> but I _don't_ want to retrieve all the{db4,ldap,mysql} flavors - just 
>> the base one. can anybody help?
>>     
>
> I don't have a chance to check (no rsync file or man page to check)
> but:
>
> Maybe in the rules you constructed first match wins. Once a match
> happens no further rules are evaluated?
>
> Otherwise you might go ask on an rsync list - I'd guess the folk there
> wouldn't have to go look at the manpages.... It really is OT here.