Re: Fwd: Hdup feature suggestion

[On 25 Oct, @ 22:00, Robert wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] Fwd: Hdup feat ..."]
> I realize the .nobackup functionality probably didn't make it into 
> 1.6.37. What can I do to 'grease the wheel' in order to get this work 
> done? Do you have a specification? I'll consider taking a crack at doing 
> this, if you have some sort of a specification for how you want the 
> .nobackup functionality to work.

Well, to give a general "status update". I'm working on hdup 2.0
(albeit slowly). This release will depend on glib for a memory
allocating. Thus removing a remaining segfaults :). But this is all
behind the curtains. Feature wise only the .nobackup is added.

About .nobackup.
Gnu find cannot be used to do this :( This means I have to write my
own semi-find compatible c-routine that does the same + looks for a
.nobackup (or what the name is) file. (it will go like this: build a
directory tree. If you encounter .nobackup delete the subtree from the
directory tree - but then smarter).

If hdup has its own find-routine (it should also be able to handle
regexps). Then all other dependencies for Gnu find can also be dropped.
So the include/exclude stuff should also be rewritten.

Thus to finally give an answer - I need to write a c-routine that does
what find does (but luckily not all features need to be supported :) )

> Also, do you still need me to write the "untar options" keyword in the 
> config file processor? I forgot all about it, and the release notes 
> don't say anything about it, though I could very well have missed it.

nope :) The 'tar option' is also given to untar.

> Thanks for all of your hard work.

no thanks :)

grtz Miek