[Tux4kids-discuss] No updates on main site yet

[David Bruce]

Hi Holger,

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Montag, 21. November 2011, David Bruce wrote:
>> Yes, I set that up when we moved to git.  I looked into it a little a
>> few hours ago.  At first glance, it looks like perhaps I had a
>> hard-coded path that broke in the update or something like that.  From
>> what I recall, it was quite simple to set up a couple years ago so I
>> should be able to address it today.

It's turning out to be harder than I expected, because the git repos
and the website docs are now on separate machines.  Our central git
repo "lives" on vasks.debian.org, whereas the htdocs are on
wagner.debian.org. AFAICT, the webserver looks in wagner's
/srv/home/groups/tux4kids/htdocs for our web docs.  I used to have a
non-bare git repo on the server that a script could cd to from the
official bare tux4kids-web.git/hooks directory, and then just do a
"git reset -hard origin/master".  Problem is, I can't cd from vasks to
wagner.  Likewise, I can't create a symbolic link from one machine to
another, at least with a simple "ln -s.

When I first looked at wagner's /srv/home/groups/tux4kids last night,
it was identical to /home/groups/tux4kids on vasks, so it is possible
that the server has a cron job or something that pulls changes over
periodically.  If so, the problem is probably fixed, but we will have
to accept some lag time before updates show up.  If not, I can try to
contact the alioth admins on irc.

> I'm also now that confident with git usage that I shall update Debian packages
> rather soon.

Good to see you back in action!

David



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