On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 03:38:08PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > I'd like to keep the files in the "Project Home Page" area of alioth in > our SVN repository, and I'm looking for a way to automate the updating > of these pages.
I've done if for a number of projects (like buffy). You can have a look
at the hooks in buffy to see what they do, and I'll summarize it here.
To begin with, the webspace is an *anonymous* svn checkout of the files.
Then:
> - how to write the hook so that only specific files are uploaded, and
> put into the right location
In post-commit, I have:
# Update the contents of the website
if svnlook dirs-changed $REPOS | grep -q '^web/trunk/'
then
echo "Thanks" | mail -s "Update buffy web pages, please" [EMAIL
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fi
svnlook checks that the commit involve the web area. The mail asks
haydn to call svn up; this is needed because the svn repo and the web
pages are not in the same machine.
> - how to authenticate the transfer, since the svn repository and the
> webspace is on different machines.
Then on haydn I have a procmail rule that sees the e-mail and calls svn
up appropriately. Ask me again later if you need the procmail rule, as
I can't get to alioth right now). If someone sends extra mails it's
just idempotent svn up commands so it wouldn't matter. If you're
concerned about DOS attacks, touch a file after doing svn up and don't
do it again before one minute.
Better ideas would of course be welcome.
Ciao,
Enrico
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