June 2011 - clo-devel - mailman3.common-lisp.net

[clo-devel] Subversion repository browsing enabled through ViewVC
by Erik Huelsmann 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

Turns out setting up ViewVC to do Subversion repository browsing was trivial once we had a mechanism to collect repository roots in one place. For Subversion, I set up /var/lib/svnroots which has the same purpose as /var/lib/cvsroots. I set up a cron job to fill the svnroots directory with symlinks on a daily interval. All symlinks which points to repositories which don't have a "revision 1" are deleted, assuming that's a good indicator of which projects use Subversion. The http://common-lisp.net/viewvc listing contains CVS and Subversion repositories sorted by alphabet. Bye, Erik.

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[clo-devel] Updating the cl.net website?
by Erik Huelsmann 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

What's the preferred way to update the website? I think there are many files sitting in /var/www which don't have an equivalent in /project/clo/public_html. Should we start using rsync with the --delete flag to sync the two to make sure they are exactly the same? I think most of the time the only correct way to edit the clo website would be to edit the files in /project/clo/public_html, isn't it? Bye, Erik.

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[clo-devel] Drop support for ArchZoom?
by Erik Huelsmann 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

Since I'm installing repository viewers, I had to look at the list of repository viewers we currently support. We decided to drop ViewSVN, basically because Trac is a great repository viewer and we can easily add more Trac instance, which will provide projects much more than just repository viewing. Since GitWeb, ViewVC and darcsweb have now been set up, the only repository viewer not set up (but supported before) is ArchZoom. Should we drop support for ArchZoom? Are there projects and people using Arch? [I can't even find arch in the list of Debian packages!] If it's not clear from the above, if it were up to me, I'd drop Arch and ArchZoom. Bye, Erik.

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[clo-devel] ViewVC (formerly ViewCVS) set up
by Erik Huelsmann 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

Just finished setting up ViewVC. In order to make it work, I had to create a directory /var/lib/cvsroots which contains symlinks to all cvsroots in all projects. This takes advantage of ViewVCs feature to list all repositories in a specific directory. To keep the list current, I installed a nightly cron job: cron.root.update-viewvc-cvsroots.sh. No actual copying takes place, just symlinks to the original repositories. Additionally, I had to install a RedirectMatch because of the name-change. Bye, Erik.

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[clo-devel] Subversion post-commit hook fixed & enhanced
by Erik Huelsmann 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

After the migration to new cl.net, Subversion commit mails were broken. Today, I fixed the issue (all links were pointing to a subversion location in /usr/local which didn't get ported over). The links have been changed to all point to /custom/bin/svn-post-{commit,revprop-change} Additionally, I've created a 'mailer.py' configuration file in /custom/conf/svn-mailer.conf which contains all the configuration to work with current and future repositories as long as they are being set up in the /project hierarchy. In the armedbear project, I've long maintained a custom post-commit hookscript which invoked Trac's post-commit script to close or update tickets. This functionality has now been built into the default script, if there is a 'trac' directory residing next to the 'svn' directory within the project. Bye, Erik.

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