AARGH! I can't make rsync not copy dirs with --files-from option

2009-03-14 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates I'm running rsync 3.02 and I have a simple thing I'm trying to do, but rsync won't let me do it. What I'm trying to do is consolidate saved rpms on openSuSE 11.0 to a central server for local updates. openSuSE saves the rpms in: /var/cache/zypp/packages/repository name

Re: AARGH! I can't make rsync not copy dirs with --files-from option

2009-03-14 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 04:11:12PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: Way too much path, way way too much path. By default, all the path segments in the files-from file are a part of the transfer unless you turn off the implied --relative option, in which case no directory elements from the source