rsync - Jul 2009 - Trivial exclude help

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

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