From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 22:30:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8CB1065671 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:30:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (student.mired.org [66.92.153.77]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56D858FC29 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:30:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: (qmail 89453 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Mar 2008 22:28:29 -0000 Received: from bhuda.mired.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bhuda.mired.org (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:28:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:28:27 -0400 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080313182827.530d91d4@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20080313210242.GA55395@hades.panopticon> References: <20080313210242.GA55395@hades.panopticon> Organization: Meyer Consulting X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.11 (Ladyburn) From: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: Transferring ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:30:04 -0000 On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:02:42 +0300 Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > Actually, I've already had an idea of utility with pretty similar > functionality for a long time. The utility would copy directory > hierarchies recursively based on file include/exclude list, like this: You mean like rsync? > +/{etc,bin,sbin,lib} > +/usr > -/usr/local > +/usr/local/{bin,sbin,libexec,share,lib} > -/usr/share/locale > +/usr/share/locale/ru_RU* > > so `my_cool_copy_utility / /path/to/jail` will copy /etc,/bin,/sbin,/lib > and /usr dirs to jail, but in /usr/share/locale will only copy > russian locales, but no others, and in usr/local it won't copy > man, include and other dirs not needed in a jail. Yeah, rsync can do that. The syntax is a little (or maybe a lot) different, though. > Such an utility is something I still might start working on. If you've already checked out rsync and found it wanting, my apologies for wasting your time. If not, it's probably worth a look. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.