On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 06/16/2011 08:56 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > Hi > > > > following my recent question concerning accessing the LyX svn server > > via https to mirror it on launchpad to have automated daily builds, > > would it be possible to enable https acces in addition to the svn > > protocoll? > > > I could be wrong about this, but I'm guessing that what launchpad wants > is a URL from which it can download something like a tarball of the > source. If so, then I'm not sure this will help. > > That said, if you can tell me exactly what we do need, I could probably > automate something on one of my servers. It'd be a bit indirect, but it > would work. > What I would like to do is to enable nightly builds. For this to happen, sourceforge needs to mirror the svn automatically and create automatically a nightly build. To do this, it needs an url from which it can mirror the svn branch. It can mirror svn branches, if they are available via the https (launchpad uses apparently svn-bzr for that internally). So there would be two approaches to achieve this (as far as I can understand it at the moment): 1) enable https access to the svn repository - should not be to difficult if you have control over the server, but if it is a hosted svn which LyX is on, might not be possible. I do not know, if one can use a different web server to access a remote svn repository. 2) Mirror the existing LyX repo to a different svn server which provides http access. This would give the added bonus, that would provide (as discussed in a different thread) additional download locations. I know that sourceforge has https acces to their svn repos, but I do not know if one can mirror an existing main svn repo to sourceforge (I will enquire). The relevant launchpad website is https://help.launchpad.net/Code/UploadingABranch with some basic info on upload / mirroring of existing branches. So yes, an indirect approach would definitaly help. Cheers, Rainer > > Richard > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
