problem with 0.7.[34] which doesn't occur with 0.6.0

[dean gaudet]

ok this appears to be caused by the "--exclude-filelist exclude.list"
option ... i tried removing entries from the file, and the entries don't
matter -- even if i had just "/proc" in the file i got the above error.

and i can reproduce this with an empty mirror -- so i'm no longer
convinced it's related to the stitching together i did.

check this out... i can use --exclude, but just not --exclude-filelist.

-dean

[790]root@neemlark:/tmp# rm -rf tmpmirror
[791]root@neemlark:/tmp# rdiff-backup --exclude '/tmp/dg/*' twinlark-backup::/tmp tmpmirror
Found socket, ignoring
Found socket, ignoring
Found socket, ignoring
Found socket, ignoring
Found socket, ignoring
Found socket, ignoring
Found socket, ignoring
[792]root@neemlark:/tmp# cat >excl
/tmp/dg/*
[793]root@neemlark:/tmp# rdiff-backup --exclude-filelist excl twinlark-backup::/tmp tmpmirror
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 6154, in ?
    Globals.Main.Main()
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5868, in Main
    self.take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5846, in take_action
    elif self.action == "backup": self.Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5897, in Backup
    self.backup_init_select(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5911, in backup_init_select
    rpin.conn.Globals.set_select(DSRPath(1, rpin), self.select_opts)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 1695, in __call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 1631, in reval
    for arg in args: self._put(arg, req_num)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 1398, in _put
    else: self._putobj(obj, req_num)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 1402, in _putobj
    self._write("o", cPickle.dumps(obj, 1), req_num)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/copy_reg.py", line 57, in _reduce
    raise TypeError, "can't pickle %s objects" % base.__name__
TypeError: can't pickle file objects
Exit 1
[794]root@neemlark:/tmp# Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 6154, in ?
    Globals.Main.Main()
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5868, in Main
    self.take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 5845, in take_action
    PipeConnection(sys.stdin, sys.stdout).Server()
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 1619, in Server
    self.get_response(-1)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 1593, in get_response
    self.answer_request(object, req_num)
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 1600, in answer_request
    arg_req_num, arg = self._get()
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 1492, in _get
    raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "
__main__.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string (problem probably originated remotely)