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--- Begin Message ---
Package: p7zip
Version: 4.14.01-1
Severity: important
I'm trying to compress some backup data. I've rsync'ed some directories
to another partition, /mnt/backup. I want to compress
/mnt/backup/home/first with 7z so that I can burn it to a CD. However,
I want to exclude some directories from the 7z file, because they are
huge (oggs and digicam photos), and I don't need to back them up to CD.
I want to exclude these directories:
/mnt/backup/home/first/Music
/mnt/backup/home/first/Images/Pictures/Picasa
/mnt/backup/home/first/Images/Pictures/Photos/Picasa
So I created a file with a list of directories to exclude:
/mnt/backup/7z.home.exclude.list
====
Music/*
Images/Pictures/Picasa/*
Images/Pictures/Photos/Picasa/*
====
Then I ran this command:
# 7z a /mnt/backup/home/first.7z /mnt/backup/home/first/*
-x@/mnt/backup/7z.home.exclude.list
7z works, and it does not complain like it does if I specify an invalid
file list, but it does not exclude those directories.
So I tried using absolute paths in the exclude file list:
/mnt/backup/7z.home.exclude.list
====
/mnt/backup/home/first/Music/*
/mnt/backup/home/first/Images/Pictures/Picasa/*
/mnt/backup/home/first/Images/Pictures/Photos/Picasa/*
====
Then I ran the same command, but 7z still did not exclude those directories.
Finally I tried removing the "/*" at the end of each line:
/mnt/backup/7z.home.exclude.list
====
/mnt/backup/home/first/Music
/mnt/backup/home/first/Images/Pictures/Picasa
/mnt/backup/home/first/Images/Pictures/Photos/Picasa
====
Then I ran the same command, and it still will not exclude the directories.
I also tried removing the "/*" and using relative paths:
/mnt/backup/7z.home.exclude.list
====
Music
Images/Pictures/Picasa
Images/Pictures/Photos/Picasa
====
That, of course, didn't work either.
Is there any way to exclude directories from being included??? Am I
doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 16.02+transitional.1+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package p7zip has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1111327
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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Paul Tagliamonte (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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