Changeset 413 for trunk/confman.conf.5.in

Timestamp:

09/17/2009 22:36:53 (3 years ago)

Author:

ccowart

Message:

Adding support to confexport so it can use an alternate REPO_URI. This
turned out to be much more complex than it sounded and included a minor
refactor of config-checking code (more like relocation).

Leaving open to merge to 1.9.

See #63

File:

• trunk/confman.conf.5.in (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/confman.conf.5.in

@@ -83 +83 @@
 .It CONF_EXPORT_MODE
 The permissions, in octal format, for the 
+.It EXPORT_REPO_PROTOCOL, EXPORT_REPO_HOSTNAME, EXPORT_REPO_PATH
+These options are analagous to their counterparts above (without the
+EXPORT prefixes). Use these to tell
+.Xr confexport 8 to look in an alternate location for the repository when
+automated access is provided by a separate mechanism from the interactive
+toolset. It can often be useful to have the repository accessible over
+"svn+ssh://" in interactive use (e.g., 
+.Xr confman 5 ), but to have local "file://" access for
+.Xr confexport 5 . These default to unset, in which case the repository
+will be found using the REPO_* configurations.
 .Xr confexport 8
 export. Defaults to 0640.