Re: What is the true use ?

[Damian Wiest]

Hi Michael,

Take a look at rsync, http://www.rsync.org/, I think you'll find it very 
useful.  I've been using it for several months now to do software releases to 
the production boxes for one of our websites with excellent results.

Here's our production install script:

#!/bin/sh

################################################################################
##
## Filename: prod_install.sh
##
## Author:   Damian M. Wiest, <address@hidden> 
##
## Usage:    sh ./prod_install.sh
##
## Version:  $Id: prod_install.sh,v 1.5 2001/10/18 21:38:13 atg Exp $
##
## Purpose:
##
##    This script is responsible for executing installations of the foo.com
##    project onto the production systems.  We use rsync to compare files and
##    transfer only the necessary changes.
##
################################################################################

# Define some useful vars.
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
OPTS='--checksum --verbose --times --links --recursive --delete --compress 
--rsh=ssh --progress --cvs-exclude'
DEST_DIR='address@hidden:/servers/monk'

# Synchronize the project's files
rsync ${OPTS} dist/lib/myLCI.jar ${DEST_DIR}
rsync ${OPTS} dist/lib/rvw.jar ${DEST_DIR}
rsync ${OPTS} dist/lib/CommonConfig.jar ${DEST_DIR}
rsync ${OPTS} dist/lib/MonkConfig.jar ${DEST_DIR}
rsync ${OPTS} doc ${DEST_DIR}
rsync ${OPTS} images ${DEST_DIR}

-Damian


>Message: 2
>From: "Michael L. Hostbaek" <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: What is the true use ?
>Date: 22 Nov 2001 18:33:36 GMT
>Organization: TDC Internet
>To: address@hidden
>
>[snip]
>
>What I find a bit boring with *my* current configuration, is that when I
>have been working on my checkout version, and commited. Then I am forced
>to do an export and then cp -R the stuff to docroot. - There must be an
>easier way ? Maybe a Makefile that does the stuff for me ? So after
>commting, I go to docroot and type "make" - and then my docroot is
>up-to-date.
>
>However, since there are a few dir's that are not in my cvsrep, (e.g.
>mrtg, webalizer, etc etc) - I need the Makefile to check for "flagged"
>file/dir names, cause if someone commits a dir called 'mrtg', then when
>I do an export - well, then I am screwed ;)