Re: [Linux-mips-kernel] helper script

[Pete P. <pp...@mv...>]

Paul Mundt wrote:

>Hi Pete,
>
>Nice work on the script. One thing though, I ran into a few issues while I
>was testing it.. namely, it had some problems forcibly overwriting existing
>files with the symlink (ie, ln -sf behavior).
>
I'm not sure I understand what happens here. I wanted to rename the 
original file and then create a link to the linux-mips file.   
Apparently something else is the result?

>I talked to Charles Duffy about it, and he suggested something like the
>attached patch. After applying the patch, everything worked properly for me.
>
>Anyways, unless anyone has any issues with the patch, I'll shove it into
>CVS.
>
Cool. First python script :-)

Pete

>
>
>On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:32:44PM -0700, Pete Popov wrote:
>
>>Don't know if this would be useful to anyone else but Paul mentioned a 
>>similar script that he uses for another drop in tree. This one works for 
>>me and helps keep the linux-mips tree in a separate directory so I don't 
>>have cvs problems when updating, committing, etc.  The script takes the 
>>linux-mips tree, the stock kernel tree, and a new development directory 
>>as inputs. It copies the stock tree to the new dev directory; then it 
>>recurses through the new dev directory and:
>>* renames all files that are in common between the linux-mips and new 
>>dev tree directories to *.stock
>>* creates a link in the new dev directory that points to the file in the 
>>linux-mips directory.
>>
>>That way you can develop in the new directory, but you can still easily 
>>update and commit from within the linux-mips directory.
>>
>
>Regards,
>
>
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>--- treelink.orig	Mon Jul  2 22:54:11 2001
>+++ treelink	Mon Jul  2 20:48:25 2001
>@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
> 		line = f.readline()
> 		continue
> 
>+	file = re.match('^/*(.*)?$', file).group(1)
> 	orig_stock_file = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(abs_dev_dir,file)) # orig file in stock kernel
> 	link_file = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(abs_drop_in_dir,file))   # what we'll link it to
> 
>@@ -86,7 +87,11 @@
> 	elif (os.path.isfile(orig_stock_file) == 1):
> 		os.rename(orig_stock_file, orig_stock_file + ".stock")
> 
>-	os.symlink(link_file, orig_stock_file)
>+	try: os.remove(orig_stock_file)
>+	except OSError: pass
>+
>+	try: os.symlink(link_file, orig_stock_file)
>+	except: pass
> 	line = f.readline()
> 
> f.close()
>
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