Re: [gentoo-catalyst] catalyst enhancement

[Ramon van Alteren]

Nelson Batalha wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be easier to just write a
> tiny script to "rsync" a local repository of specs that Catalyst can
> already read?
>
> $ script.sh address/file.spec [options]
>
> it would sync and call catalyst [options]. There's the advantage that
> you can easily modify this to pull in any way: scp, www, etc, or just
> add protocol as an option.
>
> Just for Catalyst to "do one thing, do it well" [1] ;).
>
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
I'm not sure I'm following you.

The problem is that specfiles will be in different locations depending 
on host or environment:
f.e. /catalyst-prod and /catalyst-dev

or
/home/ramon/src/catalyst-images/portage_config/webserver and 
/home/frank/src/server-images/portage_config/webserver

We'd like to have a single definition inside the specfiles for a number 
of the parameters, such as
portage_confdir = portage_config/webserver

instead of

portage_confdir =/home/ramon/src/catalyst-images/portage_config/webserver
and
portage_confdir = /home/ramon/src/catalyst-images/portage_config/webserver

How is this solved by rsyncing ?

I could write a makefile that substitutes variables in our specfiles 
dependant on /etc/catalyst/catalyst.conf but I was curious whether this 
was a more common use case and  it didnt sound like such a weird thing 
to have, relative path support in catalyst specfiles.


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Ramon
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