[Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-svn

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi all,

David Nebauer asked me to forward the following announcement. The tool
mentioned here is available from the RefDB homepage:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/download.html#cvseasy

regards,
Markus

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Once upon a time there lived a set of scripts known as 'refdb-cvs' for 
automatic installation of refdb from cvs.

Those scripts are outdated now that refdb has migrated to subversion.

I have created the subversion analogue to refdb-cvs -- refdb-svn.  It 
consists of three files:

 - refdb-svn: script, handles checkout, update, switching trees and 
building from source
 - refdb-svn-install: script, called with 'su' to enable installation as 
root
 - refdb-svnrc: configuration file

[A manpage for each file is also included.]

Those with good memories will recall that settings in refdb-cvs were 
handled by editing the script directly; and that the scripts has to be 
installed manually.

refdb-svn behaves more like the basic refdb tools.  There is a global 
configuration file: refdb-svnrc.  It lives in @sysconfdir@.  It can be 
copied to the user's root directory as ~/.refdb-svnrc and settings in 
the local config file override global settings.

It comes packaged as an autotools tarzip for trouble-free installation.  
I have also released a Debian package.

refdb-svn has been fairly well tested, but only on a Debian Linux system 
-- users with other platforms are encouraged to report their experience.


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