When will there be a new version fixing --exclude-from

[fidelski]

I still encounter the issue mentioned in #375 and I am wondering when a newer version will be available. I am running Gentoo and there does not seem to be a new release since October 2022 other than the pre-release of 3.3.0. The latest version available is 3.2.7 (as well as on other distros, e.g. Arch Linux) that still has this issue reported on September 2022.

Are there any plans to release in the near future?

rsync --quiet -aRl --exclude-from=/etc/backup/excludelist --link-dest=/home/backup/data/2024-02-23/ /home /home/backup/databases /home/backup/data/2024-02-24
/
ERROR: rejecting excluded file-list name: /home/backup
rsync error: requested action not supported (code 4) at flist.c(996) [receiver=3.2.7]

The content of the exclude file is:

/home/backup
/home/chroot
lost+found

Rsync version:

rsync  version 3.2.7  protocol version 31
Copyright (C) 1996-2022 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: https://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    socketpairs, symlinks, symtimes, hardlinks, hardlink-specials,
    hardlink-symlinks, IPv6, atimes, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs,
    xattrs, optional secluded-args, iconv, prealloc, stop-at, no crtimes
Optimizations:
    SIMD-roll, no asm-roll, openssl-crypto, no asm-MD5
Checksum list:
    md5 md4 sha1 none
Compress list:
    zlibx zlib none
Daemon auth list:
    sha512 sha256 sha1 md5 md4

rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.

[realsimix]

Did you try with the 3.3.0pre1 release? Maybe it's fixed there.

Regards, Simon