Re: [9fans] 9vx and replica/pull on OS X
I use replica for several tasks besides usual system update, in several different ways. It (applylog) behaves very reliably when changes go to a tree hosted by a native plan9 fs (fossil in my case), yet many glitches may arise (like those reported by Paul) if the destination is a *nix tree over 9P (in my case it is u9fs on AIX). Problems aren't with replica but with 9P servers on *nix. I saw replica failing on older 9vx #Z but it went just fine when I tried with fresh libvx32 pull some months ago. - Yaroslav 2010/9/11 Eric Van Hensbergen eri...@gmail.com: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:32 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: What am I doing wrong? I would argue that, while it is quite cool in principle, replica is the wrong way to solve the source distribution problem. I gave up on replica a year ago because I got tired of the kinds of problems you're having. while some much-needed patches have been slow in being applied, i don't think bugs (or a broken 9vx #Z) imply that replica is just wrong way to replicate changes to sources. While that may be true, my experiences with replica have been pretty dreadful. I'm just not smart enough to use it properly I guess. The other aspect with using it with 9vx is that it gives me easy rollbacks since my 9vx bits on my mac aren't currently protected by Venti. -eric
Re: [9fans] 9vx and replica/pull on OS X
Hi, I just did a fresh pull for my sysfromiso tree from bitbucket, mk nuke etc. and it built fine. It's a lot of fun to look at, e.g., http://bitbucket.org/rminnich/sysfromiso/changeset/147b5c83d6f4 and see all the good stuff still being done on this kernel :-) ron
Re: [9fans] 9vx and replica/pull on OS X
2010/9/11 Paul Lalonde paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com: I'm getting essentially every file tagged as locally modified; will not update. The option -s for replica could help you with that. I have used replica from 9vx and it works (yes, a lot of warnings, but it works). However, what I usually do is to keep a sysfromiso hg repository at the root of the plan9 tree I'm using with 9vx and bind /sysfromiso to / in my profile. If you really want to use replica, you better use 9vx with a plan9 filesystem. If you don't have a real fossil server you can run one with qemu (or download mycroftiv's gridtoolsplus from 9gridchan.org, which includes ready to use images) and then, with my 9vx version (I think this should work with ron's tree too), you can boot running: $ cat /tmp/127.ini EOF nobootprompt=tcp fs=127.0.0.1 auth=127.0.0.1 user=glenda EOF $ 9vx -p /tmp/127.ini -- - yiyus || JGL . 4l77.com
Re: [9fans] 9vx and replica/pull on OS X
OK, just checked, and my vx32 repo at bitbucket.org has the cld patch. I guess yiyus committed it? ron
[9fans] 9vx and replica/pull on OS X
I want to build a kw kernel, which caused me to want to update my 9vx installation. Have my file system on a case-sensitive remote mounted drive. I'm getting essentially every file tagged as locally modified; will not update. When a file is good, I get a warning that I can't set the uid; I can probably live with that. So I grabbed a fresh plan9.tar.bz2 from Russ's site, and tried it. Same thing. What am I doing wrong? Paul -- I'm migrating my email. plalo...@telus.net will soon be disconnected. Please use paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com from now on.
Re: [9fans] 9vx and replica/pull on OS X
FWIW, Ron's got a regularly updated snapshot of the source tree in mercurial -- he and I have been using that to keep our 9vx plan 9 directories up to date -- works faster, better, and is more reliable than replica. Using floren's python installation you can even use it under Plan 9. -eric On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Paul Lalonde paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com wrote: I want to build a kw kernel, which caused me to want to update my 9vx installation. Have my file system on a case-sensitive remote mounted drive. I'm getting essentially every file tagged as locally modified; will not update. When a file is good, I get a warning that I can't set the uid; I can probably live with that. So I grabbed a fresh plan9.tar.bz2 from Russ's site, and tried it. Same thing. What am I doing wrong? Paul -- I'm migrating my email. plalo...@telus.net will soon be disconnected. Please use paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com from now on.
Re: [9fans] 9vx and replica/pull on OS X
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Paul Lalonde paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com wrote: What am I doing wrong? I would argue that, while it is quite cool in principle, replica is the wrong way to solve the source distribution problem. I gave up on replica a year ago because I got tired of the kinds of problems you're having. sysfromiso is pretty up-to-date and it's pretty darn fast to pull down. I build arm kernels on it. http://bitbucket.org/rminnich/sysfromiso If you have questions let me know. ron
Re: [9fans] 9vx and replica/pull on OS X
What am I doing wrong? I would argue that, while it is quite cool in principle, replica is the wrong way to solve the source distribution problem. I gave up on replica a year ago because I got tired of the kinds of problems you're having. while some much-needed patches have been slow in being applied, i don't think bugs (or a broken 9vx #Z) imply that replica is just wrong way to replicate changes to sources. i was able to migrate 8 years of dumps from old 32-bit filesytems with nothing (not a byte) lost in translation with replica. contrib quanstro/replica has the modest changes i made. i belive some of the change have been applied to sources. - erik
