Re: [9fans] A simple experiment

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

looks like you got it going

fetching http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/extra/plan9.tar.bz2
would improve your dowload speed as it only contains the
source

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:38 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had interest in being able to see plan 9 source at bitbucket.org.
> Part of the driver was my continuing inability to get replica to work
> well at home, and part just a need to tinker :-)
>
> So, I created an empty repo at bitbucket.org,
> http://bitbucket.org/rminnich/sysfromiso/overview
>
> and then did the usual
> hg clone -e '/bin/openssh/ssh -2' ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/rminnich/sysfromiso
>
> At this point on Plan 9 I have a directory, sysfromiso, that is empty
> save for a .hg
>
> Now on linux or other systems, you copy a bunch of directories in
> there, hg add them, and away you go.
>
> Plan 9 is more interesting:
>
> hget http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.iso.bz2>/tmp/iso.bz2
>  rc -c 'cd /tmp; bunzip2 iso.bz2'
>  9660srv -f /tmp/iso iso
> mount /srv/iso /n/iso
>
> now I've got the sources over there in /n/iso. What's next?
>
> Simple:
>
> cd sysfromiso
> bind -a /n/iso .
>
> And then add some trees:
> hg add sys/src
>
> then
> hg commit
> hg push -e '/bin/openssh/ssh -2'
>
> And I've got a starting point. What's interesting is that the
> directory always looks empty until I do the bind:
> term% ls sysfromiso
> sysfromiso/.hg
> term%
>
> So the script to continue updating the repo is pretty simple:
>  #!/bin/rc
> hget http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.iso.bz2>/tmp/iso.bz2
>  rc -c 'cd /tmp; bunzip2 iso.bz2'
>  9660srv -f /tmp/iso iso
> mount /srv/iso /n/iso
> ape/psh
> cd sysfromiso
> bind -b /n/iso .
> x=`date`
> hg commit -m "$x"
> hg push -e  '/bin/openssh/ssh -2'
>
> (note I need ape/psh when I use ssh for pushes -- quoting rules issue)
>
> This can be run from cron -- once you get through the ssh issues I
> mentioned in the earlier note.
>
> Result is an hg repo on bitbucket.org that I can get to from anywhere,
> and I can watch as Geoff continues to beat on the kw port :-)
>
> More importantly, it's going to be easier for me to bisect and find
> problems when I build from kernel source, which is very handy in my
> case. The web interface of bitbucket gives me a pretty reasonable way
> to compare different revs. I'm offering this note in the event others
> want to use this interface and repo.
>
> ron
>
>



-- 
Federico G. Benavento