Rancid Subversion 2.3.1 Patch

[r.oliver]

Hi Justin,

Is there an app similar to cvsweb or viewcvs for view a subversion tree?

Cheers

Rod Oliver 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net 
> [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Justin Grote
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 5:15 AM
> To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Rancid Subversion 2.3.1 Patch
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> As promised, here is a patch to rancid 2.3.1 to enable 
> Subversion support. It is a drop-in replacement for rancid, 
> meaning it functions exactly the same, all the configuration 
> files/procedures are exactly the same as well. The only thing 
> that has been modified is that the backend has just been 
> converted from CVS to Subversion. 
> 
> This is just a proof of concept and is NOT SUPPORTED BY THE 
> RANCID TEAM. I've been running this in place of 2.3.1 for 
> about a month now and it has functioned flawlessly, including 
> diffs, updates mailouts,  and every other functionality I 
> could test. (I made this version a few hours after I posted 
> about it on this list, took no time at all).
> 
> RANCID devs, please see my final note at the bottom and let 
> me know what you think.
> 
> This patch is also available temporarily at 
> http://myweb.cableone.net/rastan/rancidSVN.diff (I'm in the 
> middle of switching hosting providers so my primary site is down)
> 
> 
> 
> You, of course, need to have Subversion on your system to run 
> this. Most of the major Linux distributions come with 
> subversion (it's almost as ubiquitous as CVS in new 
> distributions!), including SuSE 9.1, Fedora (Red Hat) Core 2, 
> Mandrake 10, Gentoo, Debian, etc.
> 
> To apply the patch, extract the rancid-2.3.1.tar.gz source 
> package, place the patch incide the rancid-2.3.1 directory 
> that is created, and then from inside the rancid-2.3.1 directory type:
> 
> # patch -p1 < rancidSVN.diff
> (# is your prompt, do not include it)
> 
> Then install as normal.
> 
> Some notes:
> 
> - If you want to use your existing rancid CVS history with 
> this tool, you can use the excellent cvs2svn tool to convert 
> your existing history over to subversion: http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/
> 
> - Thanks to subversion, you can move and/or rename router 
> entries and still preserve their history. You can even move 
> them between groups safely! To do this, check out a separate 
> copy of the repository, then svn mv <config> 
> <newconfiglocation>. Edit your router.db files as necessary, 
> then do an svn commit. Rancid will be none the wiser.
> 
> - Since I coded it as a drop-in replacement, your repository 
> has to be on the same server. I do have a working version 
> that allows your repository to be hosted anywhere subversion 
> lets it. I've set up a test environment with multiple 
> rancid's collecting config info for different sets of routers 
> and then committing to a central repository. It is quite cool 
> and opens up a lot of possibilities for making rancid more scalable.
> 
> ***************
> Note to Devs:
> ***************
> I hope this proof of concept gives you an example that you 
> can play with and see how subversion works. I think that it's 
> improvements over CVS are highly compelling to be used in 
> rancid. The next version I plan to work on would be a 
> non-intrusive patch that would add subversion support as a 
> configurable option. It would be a simple switch in 
> rancid.conf such as USESUBVERSION=yes. Let me know if you are 
> interested and I'll publish my development repository if you 
> want to keep tabs on it (my repository is in Subversion, 
> naturally) ;). 
> 
> ______________________________
> Justin Grote
> Network Architect, CCNA
> JWG Networks
> Email: nospam-justin at grote.name (remove nospam-)
> SMS:   nospam-rastan at vtext.com (remove nospam-)
> Phone: (208) 631-5440
>