"Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com> said:

> 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
>
>



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