Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4267DA7D.9020205@serv.net> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:53:17 -0700 From: L Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Mirror, Mirroring, Download, Downloading Cygwin Release Using rsync References: <42661EB0.5000108@serv.net> <426624DE.4D2FB397@dessent.net> <42676F27.3000004@serv.net> <42677AEF.3C25D413@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <42677AEF.3C25D413@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Brian Dessent wrote: > L Anderson wrote: > > >>Initially I used --exclude but decided it was safer to ask for what I >>want rather than for everything but what I don't want. If a subdirectory >>that I don't want is added to the mirror, it gets downloaded until I >>discover it and change the --exclude to exclude it. The mirror's >>directory structure is more stable now than when I stared so it might >>not be such a problem, however, ..... > > > You can do that too in a single pass: > > mirror=mirrors.kernel.org > dir=sources.redhat.com/cygwin > dest=/d/cygwin-mirror > rsync -rlt $mirror::$dir/setup*\ $dir/release/ $dest > In deference to the Bellman: "I like it, I like it, I like it!!!" It's revisit my old script time! > (The rsync man page covers specifying multiple sources in the section > 'ADVANCED USAGE'.) > Thanks for this pointer and the help! Regards, Lowell -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/