It doesn't happen too often, but every once in a while I'll fumble with my typing and accidentally invoke "hg resolve -m" without a file argument. This then helpfully marks all the conflicts resolved. Is there any way to prevent it from resolving without one or more file arguments?
You can do this with a pre-resolve hook but you'd have to parse the arguments yourself to ensure that they are valid which could be tricky.
The relevant environment variables that you might need to look at are:
HG_ARGS - the contents of the whole command line e.g. resolve -m
HG_OPTS - a dictionary object containing options specified. This would have an an entry called mark with a value of True if -m had been specified
HG_PATS - this is the list of files specified
Depending upon the scripting language you would use, you should be able to test if HG_OPTS contains a value of True for mark and fail if it does and the HG_PATS array is empty.
It starts to get complicated when you take into account the --include and --exclude arguments.
If you specify the files to resolve as part of the --include option then the files to include would be in HG_OPTS, not HG_PATS. Also, I don't know what would happen if you specified hg resolve -m test.txt --exclude test.txt. I'd hope that it would not resolve anything but you'd need to test that.
Once you've parsed the command arguments, you'd return either 0 to allow the command or 1 to prevent it. You should echo a reason for the failure if you return 1 to avoid confusion later.
If you don't know how to do this then you'd need to specify what OS and shell you are using for anyone to provide more specific help.
Related
I would like to be able to specify the --force argument within the chocolateyinstall.ps1 file. Currently, in that file I am invoking a batch file and try to append --force in the end but unsurprisingly it does not work.
You can try setting $env:ChocolateyForce = 'true' in chocolateyInstall.ps1, but normally this variable is meant for checking that --force was specified by the operator at the command line. It is generally used for modifying script behavior if --force was passed.
I don't know if changing the environment variable mid-script would have an effect or not on the Install-Chocolatey* cmdlets.
I'm currently using unison for syncing local files with my cloud. Therefore I have set up a batch file which contains all options I need.
"K:\unison\unison 2.48.4 text.exe" -batch -repeat 1200 -fastcheck true -log=false D:\localsync Z:\cloudsync
In order to tell unison to skip all folders with the name ".tmp" regardless of their path I came up with this command:
"K:\unison\unison 2.48.4 text.exe" -batch -repeat 1200 -fastcheck true -log=false -ignore=Name{*.*.tmp} D:\localsync Z:\cloudsync
The *.*.tmp construct is recommend since unison ignores all names beginning with a dot.
Unfortunately, unison throws an error here when I run the batch file:
Uncaught exception Sys_error("C:\Users\name\.unison\*.tmp)
It then complains that the syntax for the directory name is wrong. Obviously, unison is reading the ignore statement and looking for a file with the name of the to be ignored folder in the .unison directory.
I couldn't come up with a solution to that. All information in the manual (https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html) sets ignore paths in the unison profile which I'm not using.
How's the way to get unison to ignore some directories when only using command line options?
I think your syntax is wrong. Try
-ignore 'Name {*.*.tmp}'
From the Unison manual
Ignore patterns can also be specified on the command line, if you like (this is probably not very useful), using an option like -ignore 'Name temp.txt'.
Is there a way to specify the current working directory for the system command executed by the function module SXPG_COMMAND_EXECUTE?
I do not see any parameter which would allow me to do that either by defining the command in transaction SM69 or on the list of IMPORTING parameters in SE37.
It looks like by default such commands are started in DIR_HOME which can be viewed by the transaction AL11. Do I have any control over that?
There isn't a way of doing it via `SM69' unfortunately. I think the only solution is to create a script and call that.
I was going to suggest wrapping the statements in a SM69 command defined as a call to sh with parameters of -c 'cd <dir> && /path/to/command' but unfortunately that doesn't work. According to note 401095 wildcards are not permitted. When I tested, && was translated into a single &, causing the command to fail.
Would be good if you access this information using FM FILE_GET_NAME_USING_PATH (export the script name for which you want to find the physical directory).
The recieving path can be used in SXPG_COMMAND_EXECUTE.
Because the external commands I called were actually .bat files I solved this by putting the following expression at the beginning of each and every one.
cd /d %~dp0
This Stackoverflow question helped a lot actually.
I have a situation where I'd like to diff two branches in Perforce. Normally I'd use diff2 to do a server-side diff but in this case the files on the branches are so large that the diff2 call ends up filling up /tmp on my server trying to diff them and the diff fails.
I can't bring down my server to rectify this so I'm looking at checking out the the content to disk and using diff on the command line to inspect and compare the content.
The trouble is: most of the files have RCS keywords in them that are being expanded.
I know can remove keyword expansion from a file by opening the files for edit and removing the -k attribute from the files in the process, but that seems a bit brute force. I was hoping I could just tell the p4 sync command not to expand the keywords on checkout. I can't seem to find a way to do this? Is it possible?
As a possible alternative solution, does anyone know if you can tell p4 diff2 which directory to use for temporary space when you call it? If I could tell it to use abundant NAS space instead of /tmp on the Perforce server I might be able to make it work.
I'm using 2010.x version of Perforce if that changes the answer in any way.
There's no way I know of to disable keyword expansion on sync. Here's what I would try:
1) Create a branch spec between the two sets of files
2) Run "p4 files //path/to/files/... | cut -d '#' -f 1 > tmp"
Path to files above should be the right hand side of the branch spec you created
3) p4 -x tmp diff2 -b
This tells p4 to iterate over the lines of text in 'tmp' and treat them as arguments to the command. I think /tmp on your server will get cleared in-between each file this way, preventing it from filling up.
I unfortunately don't have files large enough to test that it works, so this is entirely theoretical.
To change the temp directory that p4d uses just TEMP or TMP to a different path and restart p4d. If you're on Windows make sure to call 'p4 set -S perforce TMP=' to set variable for the Perforce service; without the -S perforce you'll just set it for the current user.
I wrote a little CDN server that rebuilds its registry pool when new pool-content-packages are installed into that registry pool.
Instead of having each pool-content-package call the init.d of the cdn-server, I'd like to use triggers. That way it would restart the server only once at the end of an installation run, after all packages were installed.
What have I to do to use triggers in my packages with debhelper support?
What you are looking for is dpkg-triggers.
One solution with use of debhelper to build the debian packages is this:
Step 1)
Create file debian/<serverPackageName>.triggers (replace <serverPackageName> with name of your server package).
Step 1a)
Define a trigger that watch the directory of your pool. The content of file would be:
interest /path/to/my/pool
Step 1b)
But you can also define a named trigger, which have to be fired explicit (see step 3).
content of file:
interest cdn-pool-changed
The name of the trigger cdn-pool-changed is free. You can take what ever you want.
Step 2)
Add handler for trigger to file debian/<serverPackageName>.postinst (replace <serverPackageName> with name of your server package).
Example:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
case "$1" in
configure)
;;
triggered)
#here is the handler
/etc/init.d/<serverPackageName> restart
;;
abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure)
;;
*)
echo "postinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
#DEBHELPER#
exit 0
Replace <serverPackageName> with name of your server package.
Step 3) (only for named triggers, step 1b) )
Add in every content package the file debian/<contentPackageName>.triggers (replace <contentPackageName> with names of your content packages).
content of file:
activate cdn-pool-changed
Use same name for trigger you defined in step 1.
More detailed Information
The best description for dpkg-triggers I could found is "How to use dpkg triggers". The corresponding git repository with examples you can get here:
git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/users/seanius/dpkg-triggers-example.git
I had a need and read and re-read the docs many times. I think that the process is not clearly explain or rather what goes where is not clearly explained. Here I hope to clarify the use of Debian package triggers.
Service with Configuration Directory
A service reading its settings in a specific directory can mark that directory as being of interest.
Say I create a new service which reads settings from /usr/share/my-service/config/...
That service gets two additions:
In its debian directory I add my-service.triggers
And here are the contents:
# my-service.triggers
interest /usr/share/my-service/config
This means if any other package installs or removes a file from that directory, the trigger enters its "needs to be run" state.
In its debian directory I also add my-service.postinst
And I have a script as follow to check whether the trigger happened and run a process as required:
# my-service.postinst
if [ "$1" = "triggered" ]
then
if [ "$2" = "/usr/share/my-service/config" ]
then
# this may or may not be what you need to do, but this is often
# how you handle a change in your service config files
#
systemctl restart my-service
fi
exit 0
fi
That's it.
Now packages adding extensions to your service can add their own configuration file(s) under /usr/share/my-service/config (or a directory under /etc/my-service/my-service.d/... or /var/lib/my-service/..., although that last one should be reserved for dynamic files, not files installed from a package) and dpkg automatically calls your postinst script with:
postinst triggered /usr/share/my-service/config
# where /usr/share/my-service/config is your <interest-path>
This call happens only once and after all the packages were installed, hence the advantage of having a trigger in the first place. This way each package does not need to know that it has to restart my-service and it does not happen more than once, which could cause all sorts of side effects (i.e. the service tries to listen on a TCP port and get error: address already in use).
IMPORTANT: keep in mind that the postinst should include a line with #DEBHELPER#.
So you do not have to do anything special in other packages. Only make sure to install the configuration files in the correct directory and dpkg picks up from there (i.e. in my example under /usr/share/my-service/config).
I have an extension to BIND9 called ipmgr which makes use of .ini files saved in a specific folder. It uses the files to generate DNS zones (way less errors that way! and it includes support for getting letsencrypt certificates and settings for dmarc/dkim). This package uses this case: a simple directory where configuration files get installed. Other packages do not need to do anything other than install files in the right place (/usr/share/ipmgr/zones, for this package).
Service without a Configuration Folder
In some (rare?) cases, you may need to trigger something in a service which is not driven by the installation of a new configuration file.
In this case, you can use an arbitrary name (it should include your package name to make sure it is unique since this name is global to the entire Debian/Ubuntu system).
To make this one work, you need three files, one of which is a trigger in the other packages.
State the Interest
As above, we have an interest. In this case, the interest is stated as a name on its own. The dpkg system distinguish between a name and a path because a name cannot include a slash (/) character. Names are limited to ASCII except control characters and spaces. I would suggest you stick to a-z, 0-9 and dashes (-).
# my-service.triggers
interest my-service-settings
This is useful if you cannot simply track a folder. For example, the settings could come from a network connection that a package offers once installed.
Listen for the Triggers
Again, as above, you need a postinst script in your Service Package. This captures the trigger and allows you to run a command. The script is the same, only you test for the name instead of the folder (note that you can have any number of triggers, so you could also have both: a folder as above and a special name as here).
# my-service.postinst
if [ "$1" = "triggered" ]
then
if [ "$2" = "my-service-settings" ]
then
# this may or may not what you need to do, but this is often
# how you handle a change in your service config files
#
systemctl restart my-service
fi
exit 0
fi
The Trigger
As mentioned above, we need a third file. An arbitrary name is not going to be triggered automatically by dpkg. It wouldn't know whether your other package needs to trigger something just like that (although it is fairly automated as it is already).
So in other packages, you create a trigger file which looks like this:
# other-package.triggers
activate my-service-settings
Now we recognize the name, it is the same as the interest stated above.
In other words, if the trigger needs to run for something other than just the installation of files in a given location, use a special name and add this triggers file with the activate keyword.
Other Features
I have not tested the other features of the dpkg-trigger(1) tool. There are other keywords support in the triggers files:
interest
interest-await
interest-noawait
activate
activate-await
activate-noawait
The deb-triggers manual page has additional information about those. I am not too sure what the await/noawait implies other than the trigger may happen at any time when nowait is used.
Automatic Trigger Added
The build system on Ubuntu (probably Debian too) automatically adds a triggers file with the following when your package includes a library:
$ cat triggers
# Triggers added by dh_makeshlibs/11.1.6ubuntu2
activate-noawait ldconfig
I suggest you exercise caution if your package includes libraries. If you have your own triggers file, I do not know whether this addition will still happen automatically.
This also shows us a special case where it wants to use the noawait. If I understand correctly, it has to run the ldconfig trigger ASAP so your commands will work as expected after the unpack. Otherwise ldd will not know anything about your newly installed library.