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Russell Brenner on 2005-08-08 11:13:43 +1000:

> Back in November 2004 there was some talk of a patch for Rancid that
> incorporate Subversion.
>
> I've not been able to find a copy of that diff anywhere
> (rancidSVN.diff), does anybody know where this patch lies or can
> contact me off list to grab a copy?

http://svn.dastylinrastan.com/rastan/rancidSVN/RancidSVN-2.3.1.patch

For the record, it's worked flawlessly for about a month now in our
setup - we converted from a CVS repository with cvs2svn and were off
running.

Russell Brenner wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>Back in November 2004 there was some talk of a patch for Rancid that
>incorporate Subversion.
>
>I've not been able to find a copy of that diff anywhere (rancidSVN.diff),
>does anybody know where this patch lies or can contact me off list to grab a
>copy?
>
>
http://svn.dastylinrastan.com/rastan/rancidSVN/RancidSVN-2.3.1.patch

You can also just check out the rancidSVN directory and install it
normally like rancid.

I wrote this patch because it was pretty easy to do. It is a drop-in
replacement for the CVS rancid. I was going to make a separate patch
that would make subversion optional so that it could be merged into the
mainline rancid tree, but this worked so well that I really didn't have
any reason to do it. I will continue to track the major RANCID releases
and merge in those changes appropriately. Maybe one of these days I'll
get off my ass and write an optional patch so that subversion support
can be merged into the mainline rancid, as my patch seems to be pretty
popular.

The site above might be a little slow for a couple of weeks, as I am in
the process of moving the host to a new provider.

--
__________________________
Justin Grote
Network Architect
JWG Networks

I've integrated your patch for Subversion (more or less), plus a few misc
bits, into:

ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-2.3.2a3.tar.gz

It'l likely need a little tweaking, but appears to work just fine.

Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:50:48AM -0600, Justin Grote:
> Russell Brenner wrote:
>
> >Hi Folks,
> >
> >Back in November 2004 there was some talk of a patch for Rancid that
> >incorporate Subversion.
> >
> >I've not been able to find a copy of that diff anywhere (rancidSVN.diff),
> >does anybody know where this patch lies or can contact me off list to grab
> >a
> >copy?
> >
> >
> http://svn.dastylinrastan.com/rastan/rancidSVN/RancidSVN-2.3.1.patch
>
> You can also just check out the rancidSVN directory and install it
> normally like rancid.
>
> I wrote this patch because it was pretty easy to do. It is a drop-in
> replacement for the CVS rancid. I was going to make a separate patch
> that would make subversion optional so that it could be merged into the
> mainline rancid tree, but this worked so well that I really didn't have
> any reason to do it. I will continue to track the major RANCID releases
> and merge in those changes appropriately. Maybe one of these days I'll
> get off my ass and write an optional patch so that subversion support
> can be merged into the mainline rancid, as my patch seems to be pretty
> popular.
>
> The site above might be a little slow for a couple of weeks, as I am in
> the process of moving the host to a new provider.
>
> --
> __________________________
> Justin Grote
> Network Architect
> JWG Networks
>

john heasley wrote:

>I've integrated your patch for Subversion (more or less), plus a few misc
>bits, into:
>
> ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-2.3.2a3.tar.gz
>
>It'l likely need a little tweaking, but appears to work just fine.
>
>
Excellent. Thanks for taking the extra mile. I'll be sure to test it
thoroughly and see if I can unravel any bugs.

Hope everyone enjoys subversion support as much as I have. I hope in the
next couple of weeks to submit another patch that I've been using for a
while that allows distributed rancid collectors at various sites to
commit to a central repository, thanks to subversion's remote committing.

Thanks again John, I appreciate it.

--
__________________________
Justin Grote
Network Architect
JWG Networks