Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2005, Adam Porter wrote: > >>Just FYI, this still doesn't work with 4.18-1. I checked the upstream >>bug report, but no progress has been made on it. > > > This[1] script shows how to use exclude lists. Actually, I just followed > the syntax you gave to me in this bug report. > > [0] http://adn.diwi.org/debian/p7zip/excluding-dirs.sh.txt > [1] http://adn.diwi.org/debian/p7zip/excluding-dirs.sh > > Here[2] is the output. > > [2] http://adn.diwi.org/debian/p7zip/excluding-dirs.sh.txt > > Conclusion: one has to put the relative paths to the directories from > the directory from where you are adding to archive. > > May I close this report? I think I will add some information about this > in next upload's documentation.
Thanks for following up. I ran your script and checked the output, and now I understand what you mean. (Running version "4.29 beta", BTW.) It seems to work in a fairly logical manner now. However, I did notice one thing that is still confusing, and should at least be noted, IMO. I used your script, but changed the archive command to this: $ 7z a directory.7z directory/* [EMAIL PROTECTED] That results in the exact same archive as your unmodified script. The confusing part is, it would seem to me that adding the "/*" should cause not the directory itself to be added to the archive, but only the contents of the directory; i.e. instead of the archive containing a "directory/contents of directory" structure, it should only contain the contents of "directory", with no parent directory. I guess that's a separate issue, so I don't see any reason to not close this bug. (Finally!) But I do think it should be mentioned in the man page, at least, because it doesn't do what one would think it should do (IMHO).
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