Using rsync to maintain local FC10 updates repo

[Gordon Messmer]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Gordon Messmer wrote:
...
>> rsync -auv rsync://mirrors.usc.edu/fedora/linux/updates/10/i386/ \
>> --delete --exclude=debug/ /repos/fedora/10/updates/i386
>>
>> Except that this mirror's rsync seems to be broken!  ;)
>>
> How does that work? Why don't you need -r to recurse? I tried a small 
> test and it doesn't seem to have become the default behavior or anything.

The man page for rsync states:
     -a, --archive    archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)