Using rsync to maintain local FC10 updates repo

[Bill Davidsen]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> 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)
> 
k, my /usr/local/bin/rsync was being run, not the standard one. It has some 
other useful behavior, though. I forgot I had it on this machine.

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