[svk-devel] What's the best way to enable non-interactive SVK usage?

[Jesse Vincent]

clkao,

How would you like to make pere's use case work?

16:36 <pere> TTimo: as far as I can see from the code, there is no way to make svk non-interactive.  The get_prompt() function will always try to talk to a tty.
16:37 -!- kane_ [n=kane at perl.xs4all.nl] has quit []
16:37 <TTimo> depends for which operations I suppose
16:37 <TTimo> definitely works for my smerge calls
16:38 <obra> pere: which interactions are you running into problems with?
16:40 <pere> svk init
16:41 <pere> but also svk commit, some times (not sure when).
16:42 <obra> svk commit shouldn't, if you specify a -m ''
16:42 <pere> the script is <URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-edu/trunk/src/debian-edu-config/sbin/debian-edu-etc-svk?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 >
16:42 <pere> obra: it does, if the repository isn't already created, I believe.
16:42  * obra nods
16:42 <obra> iirc, there was a way to force that to non-interactive
16:42 <obra> sourcediving
16:43 <pere> It would be great.  I want to make svk init non-interactive, and svk commit just fail if the repository is missing.
16:45 <pere> I've tried to work around the problem using expect, but it too fail during debian installation with "The system has no more ptys." :(
16:46 <obra> sadly, I am wrong.  I'd like a comment from clkao about how he'd like this fixed.
16:47 <obra> there's no way to force the non-interactive
16:47 <obra> since I know a webgui for svk is in the works, this MUST have been dealt with somehow
16:47 <pere> right.  it would be great if a fix for it is released soon, so I can get it into the next Debian release.
16:48 <obra> what's the timing on that look like?
16:48 <pere> completely unrelated to this, but related to the script for keeping /etc/ in svk.  Is there a way to prune history?  For example, only keep changes newer than 2 years, or only keep 12 diffs, one for 
             each month for all changes more than 2 years old?
16:49 <obra> that's more of an svn question. and I believe their supported answer is svnadmin dump| svndumpfilter|svnadmin load
16:49 <pere> obra: everything freezes around may, so I would need a fixed package around february/march to be able to fix the etc-svk script.
16:49 <obra> ok
16:49 <obra> I know we're shooting for a 2.2b1 for Christmas
16:49 <obra> I don't know if I can talk cl into the fix by then, but I can try
16:49 <pere> and 2.2?
16:50 <obra> release date in general? "when it's ready" 
16:50 <pere> :)
16:50 <obra> I'm hoping for no more than a month or two.
16:50 <obra> there are some really sexy new features
16:51 <obra> the big one is more intelligent branch management
16:51 <pere> right.  if you need a ref for the non-interactive issue, you can use <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435786 >.
16:52 <obra> ok
16:52 <obra> I'll see what I can do
16:52 <obra> :)
16:52 <pere> thanks.
16:52 <pere> dumbing down get_prompt() would solve it.  Then I could use 'yes | svk init' :)

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