Re: [Monotone-devel] Usher and older installations...

[Richard Levitte]

Actually, never mind that.  A little more mind twisting and I got how
to do this:

 server ".catchall."
pattern ""
  local "--confdir=/etc/monotone" "--db=/var/lib/monotone/default.mtn" 
"--no-standard-rcfiles" "--rcfile=/etc/monotone/hooks.lua" 
"--keydir=/var/lib/monotone/keys"

It plays perfectly together with other stanzas that has different
server names and no pattern prefix :-)

Cheers,
Richard

In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:49:25 +0100 (CET), Richard 
Levitte <address@hidden> said:

richard> Hey,
richard> 
richard> I've had a look at usher for a bit, and I was wondering how one would
richard> do a smooth transition from having a monotone server to having
richard> something that's controlled with usher, and was thinking that a way to
richard> do this is to have usher be a transparent drop in replacement.
richard> 
richard> However, because usher really does require a server name (project
richard> name?), complete transparency isn't possible.
richard> 
richard> So, I was wondering, would this be at all interesting?
richard> 
richard> I was imagining that a way to configure this would be with a catch all
richard> stanza, like this:
richard> 
richard> server ""
richard>  local "--confdir=/etc/monotone" "--db=/var/lib/monotone/default.mtn" 
"--no-standard-rcfiles" "--rcfile=/etc/monotone/hooks.lua" 
"--keydir=/var/lib/monotone/keys"
richard> 
richard> (this is, by the way, how I'd set up usher so it could replace the
richard> monotone server on Debian that's installed with the monotone-server
richard> package)
richard> 
richard> It is, of course, possible to do with a stanza like this:
richard> 
richard>  server ""
richard> pattern "*"
richard>   local "--confdir=/etc/monotone" "--db=/var/lib/monotone/default.mtn" 
"--no-standard-rcfiles" "--rcfile=/etc/monotone/hooks.lua" 
"--keydir=/var/lib/monotone/keys"
richard> 
richard> But that only works if the users pull like this:
richard> 
richard>   mtn pull mtn://host?*
richard> 
richard> and not with the following (perfectly valid, because there is such a
richard> branch in /var/lib/monotone/default.mtn):
richard> 
richard>   mtn pull mtn://host?cookie
richard> 
richard> The reason for this is that the pattern in the usher configuration is
richard> truly just a pattern prefix, not a true glob...  And the question is,
richard> really, how one compares one glob with another.
richard> 
richard> So the question is, is there a good way to get the transparency that I
richard> want?  Is it desirable, not just by me?
richard> 
richard> Cheers,
richard> Richard

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