[Asterisk-Users] Config Revision Control

[Douglas Garstang]

Ok, does anyone know if anyone has already created a guide for using subversion with Asterisk?
I've hit a wall already, where the subversion docs say that your files _must_ go into a directory called trunk(huh? What's with that?). That's going to break Asterisk, who obviously wants conf files in /etc/asterisk.
Grrrrr.

-----Original Message-----
From: Watkins, Bradley [mailto:Bradley.Watkins at compuware.com]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 3:06 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Config Revision Control


The first situation you mention can be solved by creating separate files that contain the unique elements, and then including them in the main files where all the commonality is.  That is how we do things, and it works well for us.  It may be a little cumbersome if you have a *lot* of uniqueness, but if you really want to share a significant portion of the configs this is the only way I know of to do it.
 
As for revision control, we use Subversion with a branch for each server containing the unique files.  All of our configuration scripts also include automatic checkins of changed files (we can always revert if need be).  It also makes it easy to spot changes if something goes wrong, as an svn diff will tell you.
 
Regards,
- Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Garstang
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 4:43 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Config Revision Control


Has anyone got any neat solutions for Asterisk .conf file revision control?
 
We have multiple Asterisk boxes here, that we'd like to maintain a _mostly_ common set of conf files on. They aren't all the same though. There's subtle differences. For example, in sip.conf, iax.conf etc, the bindaddr setting is different. Dundi.conf is very different between each system.
 
At the moment I have a file tree on a separate server, and I use the m4 processor to replace certain unique sections of the files. I have a bunch of scripts to build sip.conf etc and then rsync the files out to the servers. It works, mostly, but it isn't elegant.
 
I'd like to revision control all this. I don't know how it could be done with revision control though. As I said, not all the files are the same. I don't know if we'd run a version control client on each Asterisk box, or if we'd run it centrally, and then use rsync again, to copy the files out.
 
Doug.
 
 
 
 

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