>>>> [ Apologies if this ground is well-trodden.  Pointers welcome. ]
>>>>
>>>> For those of us who are used to NFS-based access to parent gates, how
>>>> will things like parent proto areas work?  Will there be some way for
>>>> one to have a parent of ssh://mumble.eng//foo-gate but clue ws(1) in
>>>> that /net/xyz.eng/export/ws/foo-gate/proto has populated proto areas
>>>> for use when building?
>>>
>>> In that case, you'll need to specify an nfs path to the parent.  You can
>>> do this and still use an ssh path for BRINGOVER_WS, and everything should
>>> work.
>>
>> I've never heard of BRINGOVER_WS outside of nightly.  Pointers to more on
>> how to configure this in the context of ws?
>
> Sorry, I was answering a different, specific instance of the general
> question you asked.
>
> For ws, nightly, and anything that references the parent workspace
> directly, ie not via nfs, you may (and should) specify an nfs path to the
> parent.

that should read "ie not via SCM"

> For nightly, that can be done via PARENT_WS, regardless of mercurial
> settings.
>
> For ws, that must be done by actually setting your default path via "hg
> reparent."  Because the .hg/org.opensolaris.protodefs is a generated
> script, you may change your default path at any time, and the next
> invocation os "ws" will get it right.
>
> --Mark
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