Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 01:15:46 -0400
From: Bob Bernstein <poo...@ruptured-duck.com>
Message-ID: <20190506051546.GA20307@debian.localdomain>
| Somehow I like the cp idea. If I understand, any needed
| new instances of the CVS/ROOT file will be provided by my
| new repository, and not require any tweaking, yes?
By cvs when it fetched the new directories, yes. No tweaking needed
unl;ess you want to switch to some different repo (and note, only switching
between mirror repos will work properly this way).
| I don't feel competent to author a shell script
Shell scripts are just the commands you would type into any shell, but put
in a file instead..
| Can someone suggest what would work?
The first thing you need is to get pkgsrc/CVS/Root correct. I don't
use anoncvs (I have made mirror copies of it and used them instead, but
by doing that the value I have in Root is different than you will want).
But I am sure someone can tell you.
Then you could use something like
#! /bin/sh
v=
while getopts p opt
do
case "$opt" in
v) v=-print;;
*) printf "Usage: $0 [-v] directory\n" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
done
shift $((OPTIND - 1))
test "$#" -eq 1 || {
printf "Usage: $0 [-v] directory\n" >&2
exit 1
}
cd "$1" || exit 1
test -s CVS/Root || {
printf "No CVS/Root in $1\n" >&2
exit 1
}
printf "Will update tree at %s to use %s\nOK ? " \
"$1" "$(cat CVS/Root)"
read ans || exit 1
case "$ans" in
[yY]*) ;;
*) exit 1;
esac
find . \( -path ./CVS -prune \) -o \
\( -path '*/CVS/Root' $v -exec cp CVS/Root {} \; \)
All but the final (wrapped) line is just error checking etc...
Put that (minue the leading tab) in a file (pick a name) and run
it as
sh name /path/to/pkgsrc/tree/to/change
after having updated the CVS/Root file first. Or add the -v flag
between name and the path and it will print each file name as it
is updated (which could also be done using cp's -v switch rather
than find's -print). You can also turn on execute permission on
the file and put it somewhere in your $PATH and just run "name"
as a command if you like. (I hope it is obvious that "name" in
all of this is the filename you picked - using "name" literally
would be a bizarrely weird choice).
kre
