looks like you got it going fetching http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/extra/plan9.tar.bz2 would improve your dowload speed as it only contains the source
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:38 PM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had interest in being able to see plan 9 source at bitbucket.org. > Part of the driver was my continuing inability to get replica to work > well at home, and part just a need to tinker :-) > > So, I created an empty repo at bitbucket.org, > http://bitbucket.org/rminnich/sysfromiso/overview > > and then did the usual > hg clone -e '/bin/openssh/ssh -2' ssh://h...@bitbucket.org/rminnich/sysfromiso > > At this point on Plan 9 I have a directory, sysfromiso, that is empty > save for a .hg > > Now on linux or other systems, you copy a bunch of directories in > there, hg add them, and away you go. > > Plan 9 is more interesting: > > hget http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.iso.bz2>/tmp/iso.bz2 > rc -c 'cd /tmp; bunzip2 iso.bz2' > 9660srv -f /tmp/iso iso > mount /srv/iso /n/iso > > now I've got the sources over there in /n/iso. What's next? > > Simple: > > cd sysfromiso > bind -a /n/iso . > > And then add some trees: > hg add sys/src > > then > hg commit > hg push -e '/bin/openssh/ssh -2' > > And I've got a starting point. What's interesting is that the > directory always looks empty until I do the bind: > term% ls sysfromiso > sysfromiso/.hg > term% > > So the script to continue updating the repo is pretty simple: > #!/bin/rc > hget http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.iso.bz2>/tmp/iso.bz2 > rc -c 'cd /tmp; bunzip2 iso.bz2' > 9660srv -f /tmp/iso iso > mount /srv/iso /n/iso > ape/psh > cd sysfromiso > bind -b /n/iso . > x=`date` > hg commit -m "$x" > hg push -e '/bin/openssh/ssh -2' > > (note I need ape/psh when I use ssh for pushes -- quoting rules issue) > > This can be run from cron -- once you get through the ssh issues I > mentioned in the earlier note. > > Result is an hg repo on bitbucket.org that I can get to from anywhere, > and I can watch as Geoff continues to beat on the kw port :-) > > More importantly, it's going to be easier for me to bisect and find > problems when I build from kernel source, which is very handy in my > case. The web interface of bitbucket gives me a pretty reasonable way > to compare different revs. I'm offering this note in the event others > want to use this interface and repo. > > ron > > -- Federico G. Benavento
