I've looked at the previous messages on this issue and I think I need something similar but I'm not sure if it's the same. I'm using --files-from to update a list of new/changed files. However, I also have a list of supposedly removed ones. I can remove them directly but I'd like rsync to check that they're really no longer in the source before removing. If I include the removed ones in --files-from I just get an error. Is there a way to make rsync remove these? In fact I'd like a --delete-from... This is to update our [official country] mirror of kernel.org using their change notification list.