Rancid Subversion 2.3.1 Patch

[Justin Grote]

ViewCVS does work with a subversion tree. My personal favorite is Chora
(part of the Horde framwork) at http://www.horde.org/chora

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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

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ro> Hi Justin,

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

ro> Cheers

ro> 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
>>