Bug 15882 – there should be an interface to exclude or better yet, exclude-from for rsync

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2003-02-17 19:27:18 UTC]

One useful feature, especially for people on smaller drives is an interface
to rsync's exclude-from feature via make.conf.

I'll attach a proof-of-concept patch to emerge that shows the functionality
although, since I don't "do" python, it will probably need to be we prettied
up.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sync
Actual Results:  
got a bunch of stuff in portage that I'll never look at or merge.

Expected Results:  
emerge should have passed --exclude-from to rsync with a filename gotten from
make.conf that made rsync exclude all the stuff in portage that I'll never
look at or merge.

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2003-02-17 19:30:02 UTC]

Created attachment 8394 [details, diff]
adds the ability to use --exclude-from to emerge sync

This patch allows access to the --exclude-from capabilities of rsync via
a variable in make.conf.

[Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-02-21 04:54:16 UTC]

It's in for -r3

[Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-02-21 20:22:24 UTC]

*** Bug 16157 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***