Re: Confusing change number info in smoke status

H.Merijn Brand wrote:

>>I use p4 sync to pull over a local copy of the repository, then rsync to 
>>copy that to the individual smoke boxes.  The p4 sync'd copy doesn't have a 
>>.patch, but the rsync'd copies do.  Now I'm confused...
> 
> As nick said: .patch is generated by rsync scripts, and is not maintained in
> p4, so p4 sync (whatever tree) will not fetch you a .patch, where rsync will
> 
> Those .patch files are probably a leftover from times where you rsynced
> instead of p4'd (likely?)

I only ever rsync to those boxes.  It looks like this:

                                                  |->[rsync'd smokebox]
[ActiveState]->[firewall]->[local p4 sync clone]-+->[rsync'd smokebox]
                                                  |->[rsync'd smokebox]
> 
> If p4 is your way of syncing, modify the script that calls p4 to catch the
> patchlevel that p4 reports, and write it in .patch yourself before the others
> rsync to the p4'd folder

The .patch file exists only on the rsync'd boxes, not on the local p4 
sync clone.  I use the rsync stuff built into Test::Smoke, so I guess 
that is creating the .patch file - correct?

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Alan Burlison
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