Re: cl-cookbook/clos-tutorial - Imported sources

Hi Nick!

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:19 +0100 (BST), Nick Levine <[email protected]> wrote:

> Perhaps you could tell me where I went wrong. 

I'm not a CVS expert either, so read this with a grain of salt.

> I first tried:
> 
>   /user/ndl/lisp/cookbook $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:[email protected]:/cvsroot/cl-cookbook add cl-cookbook/clos-tutorial/*.* cl-cookbook/clos-tutorial/images/*
> 
> but that didn't work at all. So I read TFM and it suggested "cvs import", so I went:
> 
>   /user/ndl/lisp/cookbook $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:[email protected]:/cvsroot/cl-cookbook import cl-cookbook/clos-tutorial foo clos-tutorial
> 
> but that duplicated the whole system, creating cl-cookbook/cl-cookbook

You should have (from within a checked-out version of the cookbook)
added your new subdirectory and then just

   cvs add clos-tutorial
   cd clos-tutorial
   cvs add *.*
   cvs add images
   cd images
   cvs add *.*
   cvs commit

(There's no need to provide the -z3 -d options with each command once
you're in the correct directory.)

> (which I notice is still partially there - see
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cl-cookbook/cl-cookbook/clos-tutorial/cl-cookbook/clos-tutorial/). 

Yes, that's one of the many shortcomings of CVS - you can remove
files, but you can't remove directories. See

  <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.ku4je3v.1ai6a0a%40ifi.uio.no>

I think Kaz Kylheku's "Meta-CVS" (written in Common Lisp) can do that
- I've never tried it, though.

> b) how did you undo the mess I created?

I checked out the whole thing, moved the files were they belong, did
the stuff described above, then removed the files that didn't belong
there and finally

   cvs delete cl-cookbook

from within the 'clos-tutorial' subfolder.

> c) how can you see what you've got without waiting for 24 hours (ie
> how do you _test_ what's about to go live on the public website)?

I don't test... :)

A cron job on one of my servers runs the following Expect script every
24 hours. If I want to see a change immediately I start it
manually. Everyone with developer access should be able to do the same
thing, I guess (replacing "nhabedi" with your SF account, of course).

------------------------------- snip ---------------------------------

#!/usr/bin/expect

set prompt "(%|>|:|\#|\\$) $"

spawn bash
send "export PS1='\\u@\\h:\\w > '\r"
expect -re $prompt
send "cd /home/edi/cl-cookbook/\r"
expect -re $prompt
send "cvs update\r"
expect -re $prompt
set timeout 30
send "scp /home/edi/cl-cookbook/* [email protected]:/home/groups/c/cl/cl-cookbook/htdocs/\r"
expect -re $prompt
send "scp /home/edi/cl-cookbook/clos-tutorial/*.* [email protected]:/home/groups/c/cl/cl-cookbook/htdocs/clos-tutorial/\r"
expect -re $prompt
send "scp /home/edi/cl-cookbook/clos-tutorial/images/*.* [email protected]:/home/groups/c/cl/cl-cookbook/htdocs/clos-tutorial/images/\r"
expect -re $prompt
send "scp /home/edi/cl-cookbook/.emacs [email protected]:/home/groups/c/cl/cl-cookbook/htdocs/\r"
expect -re $prompt
send "exit\r"

------------------------------- snip ---------------------------------

This is an ugly hack. I have to update the script if someone adds a
new directory. But luckily this only happens once per year... :)

> d) I have an overnight cron which goes "cvs update cl-cookbook" - do
> I have to modify that now to make sure my local copy of the clos
> tutorial is kept up-to-date? The file cl-cookbook/CVS/entries
> doesn't appear to know about the tutorial so I guess the answer is
> "yes". But how?

That's a mystery to me, too. If I 'cvs update' in my old checked-out
version I don't get your new 'clos-tutorial' folder. I have to check
out the whole stuff anew. Maybe someone who knows more about CVS wants
to explain this?

> Sorry to be so ignorant. 

No problem. I'm as ignorant as you... :)

Cheers,
Edi.


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