[9fans] persuade contrib/install to work

[9fans] persuade contrib/install to work

[Rudolf Sykora]

Hello,

since I somehow still can't connect to the 'central sources' and want
to make some progress, I tried to follow some of your recent advices.
Instead of '9fs sources' I do

9fs sources.lsub.org
cd /n
bind sources.lsub.org/sources sources

so now it seems I have the state similar to after just '9fs sources'.
Now I'd like to do e.g.

contrib/install fgb/xml2

but I get
srv: timeout establishing connection to tcp!sources.cs.bell-labs.com!9fs
so as if contrib still wants to connect to the central sources...

How can I persuade contrib/install to use what I've already had under
/n/sources?

Thanks
Ruda

Re: [9fans] persuade contrib/install to work

[sqweek]

2009/5/26 Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>:
> How can I persuade contrib/install to use what I've already had under
> /n/sources?

/dist/replica/contrib:7: fn servermount { 9fs sources }
-sqweek

Re: [9fans] persuade contrib/install to work

[Francisco J Ballesteros]

I think it would be better for contrib to do something
like test -d /n/sources/plan9 || 9fs sources

9fs sources
should probably mount sources, always.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:07 PM, sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/26 Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>:
>> How can I persuade contrib/install to use what I've already had under
>> /n/sources?
>
> /dist/replica/contrib:7: fn servermount { 9fs sources }
> -sqweek
>
>

Re: [9fans] persuade contrib/install to work

[Federico G. Benavento]

> I think it would be better for contrib to do something
> like test -d /n/sources/plan9 || 9fs sources
>
yes, it makes sense, though this change will only affect
the packages installed after the changes was applied

> 9fs sources
> should probably mount sources, always.
>
yep



--
Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] persuade contrib/install to work

[Rudolf Sykora]

OK. So I changed the line

from
 /dist/replica/contrib:7: fn servermount { 9fs sources }
to
/dist/replica/contrib:7: fn servermount { test -d /n/sources/plan9 ||
9fs sources }

and it seems to work as wanted...
thanks to all

Ruda

2009/5/27 Federico G. Benavento <benavento@gmail.com>:
>> I think it would be better for contrib to do something
>> like test -d /n/sources/plan9 || 9fs sources
>>
> yes, it makes sense, though this change will only affect
> the packages installed after the changes was applied
>
>> 9fs sources
>> should probably mount sources, always.
>>
> yep
>
>
>
> --
> Federico G. Benavento
>
>

Re: [9fans] persuade contrib/install to work

[Skip Tavakkolian]

in /rc/bin/9fs, change 'case sources'.  i think it makes sense to have
it dial $sources and set it to favorite location.

> but I get
> srv: timeout establishing connection to tcp!sources.cs.bell-labs.com!9fs
> so as if contrib still wants to connect to the central sources...