Package: mkisofs
Version: 4:2.01+01a01-4
Hello mkisofs maintainer,
manpage of mkisofs mentions commandline option -exclude-list,
but does not describe the format of that file.
By trial and error i arrived at the following :
* There can only be one glob per line (must it start at start of line ?)
* Empty lines are ignored
* Lines starting with a # are ignored.
* 'Comments' after globs (a # and more text to end of line) make glob fail.
* Simple globs are recognized, both in firstnames and absolute filenames ;
eg :
tmp*
/my/tmp/*
* complex globs in full filenames are not ; eg :
*/.kde/cache*
mozilla/*
Maybe globs can only match individual components of path ?
* Globs that are full directorynames
make that directory and its contents be ignored ; eg :
/my/source
This seems to contradict idea that glob must match a component of path ;
maybe full filenames and globs are treated differently ?
(in which case manpage would be wrong in saying
"a file containing a list of globs to be excluded as above.").
And i wonder whether a line containing a single space will be taken as
a glob that matches any filename with a space in it ?
And does the file need to end in a newline ?
I expect this also applies to 'hide-joliet-file' option.
I also found that usefull entrys for not backing up browser caches are :
mozilla
tmp*
cache*
Cache
libwww-cache*
This might be usefull for adding an exclude file example to manpage.
Also, manpage refers to README.hide (and some other README files),
but does not mention location of that file
(and mentioning that it is from an other package might be good too).
And SEE ALSO refers to man 8 apple_driver, which i did not find.
And availability refers to kernel.org for mkzftree
though debian ships package mkzftree.
And in description of -hidden it is said that
glob must match any part of filename or path,
but maybe that should be 'filename or any component of path' ?
If you want a patch, i'll be happy to produce one,
but currently i do not have exact information.
It works very well for me now.
It would be nice if the fileformat could be documented,
so that other users dont need to go find this out themselves.
Thanks for maintaining mkisofs (and cdrecord) :-)
have fun !
Siward de Groot
(home.wanadoo.nl/siward)
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