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I have not checked with OpenBSD 7.9, but as of 7.8 it did not support --exclude or -z. But outside of that openrsync works great.

(EDIT: --exclude is now supported on 7.9. Not sure when that was added, nice!)

But seems avoiding "slop" is getting very hard. I saw postfix now has a bit of AI code in it.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mrmasterkeyboard@mastodon.social/1...

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Somewhat ironic Postfix has a record of no root/RCE in the default install, where opensmptd hasn't (CVE-2020-7247). Time will tell if it stays that way.

Where do you see that about Postfix? I followed the links and the only thing I see is that AI is being used to find bugs, not write code.

>Claude assisted code found in external/ibm-public/postfix/dist...

That is from the original post in the thread. Is that really due to LLM ? I do not know since I avoid AI as much as I can.

But the person also posted this link too:

https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/f764ddf4062e855f73fe2e3...

Right, I read all that and I didn't see anything to indicate that AI is being used to write code - just one person's unsubstantiated claim.

I did not look at details until I saw your post, but I tend to agree with you on this point.

But that is the odd thing, how to tell for sure if a LLM was used :)

Exclude is very commonly used in automation jobs to avoid duplicating big git repos and other big files. I think that would be a show stopper for a number of people.

I just tried openrsync(1) on OpenBSD 7.9, --exclude now works.

I have not tried using exclude in openrsync in a while, but I can see it now works on OpenBSD 7.9!

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