[Asterisk-Users] Config Revision Control

[Douglas Garstang]

Aaron,

I'm trying to check-in (is that the right term?) the files for the first time. There's nothing in the repository yet.

Doug.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 3:34 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Config Revision Control
> 
> 
> No, if you do an "svn co 
> http://svn.server.com/svn/configs/trunk asterisk" 
> in /etc, it'll make a folder called asterisk in your /etc 
> directory.  Once 
> that's done, any modifications made that are committed to the 
> server can 
> be downloaded into /etc/asterisk by running "svn up" inside 
> the directory.
> 
> Might need to get your brakes checked if you keep hitting walls :)
> 
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> 
> > 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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> Aaron Daniel
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