Re: flawed CVS Scripts (was Re: d.g.o/dotplan/schedule outdated!)

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

On 11/08/04 10:02, Christian Neumair wrote:

> This is horrible. We *have* to fix it. Where are they located? What can
> be done about it? Can't we simply rm -rf dirs that don't existing
> according to www-devel-2/contents or can't they be removed manually?!
> Outdated content is one of the most embarassing things at d.g.o.
>  
The best sort of setup I've managed for this type of thing is to build 
to a temporary directory, then use rsync to update the online version of 
the website telling it to look at file checksums instead of dates, and 
delete missing files.

This is pretty easy to add onto whatever existing build scripts you are 
using, and has the benefit that file modification dates and inode 
numbers don't get updated if the file contents remain unchanged.  This 
results in better caching behaviour (Last-Modified and ETag headers 
remain constant), which also results in lower bandwidth usage (both at 
the server and client ends).

The rsync command you'd want is something like this:
   rsync -rlpc --delete fromdir/ todir

James.

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