[rancid] Re: Setting up rancid with a corp svn server?

[Tom Duijf]

Rancid uses a local svn/cvs repository and and a local working 
copy/checkout.
The trick is to just ignore the local repos and make a working copy from 
the corporate server yourself using a separate local user so svn can 
safely store its repos credentials. Svn store their own repos path, the 
one in the rancid config file is only for initial creation.

Install rancid in a normal way, have it set up the local repos and 
working copy (without switches, just the basic dir layout).
Rancid only uses the local repos path when there is no working copy set 
up. After this, just temp copy the working copy contents (remove the 
.svn dirs) and check out a new empty dir from our corp repos.

I have rancid setup to use a department svn server where we not just 
store network device configs but also several sets of server 
configuration, committed by a separate set of scripts. All works like a 
charm.

Kind regards,
Tom Duijf

John A. Kilpatrick wrote:
> My boss wants me to have rancid use our corporate svn server.  Shouldn't 
> be a problem right? :)
>
> So I went and made /data/rancid as the base dir.  I checked out the tree 
> using svn co https://svn.foo.com/svn/is-ops is-ops and got the tree we 
> use.
>
> I have the basedir set to /data/rancid and I have CVSROOT set to 
> /data//rancid/is-ops/trunk/doc/network/Configs which is where I'd like the 
> files to go.
>
> Then I ran rancid-cvs and got:
>
> rancid at ntop /data/rancid $ rancid-cvs
> svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
> svn: Unable to open repository 
> 'file:///data/rancid/is-ops/trunk/doc/network/Configs/prod'
> svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
> svn: Unable to open repository 
> 'file:///data/rancid/is-ops/trunk/doc/network/Configs/prod'
> svn: '.' is not a working copy
> svn: Can't open file '.svn/entries': No such file or directory
> svn: '/data/rancid/prod/configs' is not a working copy
> svn: '.' is not a working copy
> svn: Can't open file '.svn/entries': No such file or directory
> svn: '/data/rancid/prod' is not a working copy
> svn: Can't open file '/data/rancid/prod/.svn/entries': No such file or 
> directory
> svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
> svn: Unable to open repository 
> 'file:///data/rancid/is-ops/trunk/doc/network/Configs/corp'
> svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
> svn: Unable to open repository 
> 'file:///data/rancid/is-ops/trunk/doc/network/Configs/corp'
> svn: '.' is not a working copy
> svn: Can't open file '.svn/entries': No such file or directory
> svn: '/data/rancid/corp/configs' is not a working copy
> svn: '.' is not a working copy
> svn: Can't open file '.svn/entries': No such file or directory
> svn: '/data/rancid/corp' is not a working copy
> svn: Can't open file '/data/rancid/corp/.svn/entries': No such file or 
> directory
>
> I'll be honest, I'm not an svn guru nor am I rancid guru - rancid always 
> falls under the "just works" category for me.  If someone can point out 
> what I'm doing wrong I'd appreciate it.  Should the CVS basedir be a URL?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>