rsync includes / excludes

[Tony Nelson]

At 4:57 PM -0400 7/15/07, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
>Hello Everyone,
>
>I have a local mirror of the Fedora 7 updates repo that my home PCs are
>set to update from.  Since I know some packages will never be needed, I
>use excludes to prevent downloading the stuff I don't want.
>
>One series of packages I don't want are the openoffice language
>packages.  But, I want to keep the english package,
>"openoffice.org-langpack-en".  Unfortunately, my include/excludes aren't
>working, and instead all of the language packages are excluded.
>
>Here's the rsync command I'm using (run from cron daily):
>
>rsync -aHP --include-from=/usr/local/etc/rsync-includes --delete \
>        --delete-excluded mirrors.kernel.org::fedora/updates/7/i386/ \
>        /srv/intranet/iso-images/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
>
>Here's the include file:
>
>- repodata/
>+ openoffice.org-langpack-en
>- openoffice.org-langpack-*
>- koffice-langpack-*
>- kde-i18n*
>- m17n-db*
>- debug
>
>I've tried numerous variations, but none have so far worked.  I'm
>obviously missing something.
>
>How do include the "openoffice.org-langpack-en" package, but exclude all
>of the other language packages?

I think that there would be other characthers after "-en" in the file name,
so you might need "+ openoffice.org-langpack-en*".  I've had little success
with mixed includes and excludes, so I may well be wrong.
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