Re: Fwd: Hdup feature suggestion

[On 30 Sep, @ 19:02, Robert wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] Fwd: Hdup feat ..."]
> Thanks for the pointer. Indeed, a quick peruse of the man pages for star 
> would indicate what you propose just might be a solution to the 
> "exclude" problem.
> 
> An issue I see is the fact that some of the options to gnu-tar are hard 
> coded in the hdup program. So unless star is command line compatible 
> with the hard coded options in hdup, then we'll have to make hdup code 
> changes. If star is command line compatible with gnu-tar, then we 
> shouldn't have a problem!
> 
> I'll play around with it and reply back to the list with my results. 
> Thanks for the idea!

maybe the easiest thing is to make a wrapper around star which will
be called from hdup (tar = /usr/bin/tar.wrapper). And let that parse
the options.

The code that handles the tar option in hdup isn't exactly the most
beautifull (and/or clean) code in the world.

My short term plan is to fix the include/exclude stuff and add some
.nobackup option (this is planned for 1.6.37).

I do welcome any star patches, but I doubt if it can be done in a
clean way without redesigning this core (and old) part of hdup,
(also the "protocol" for remote backups, actually sends a cpf/cpfz/
cpfj or cpfl option on the wire - to signal what the tar file looks
like.... yes I know - ugly :) )

grtz Miek