[NCLUG] CVS Auto update of web pages?

[dann frazier]

here's an implmentation i set up, based somewhat on willy's method:

on commit, cvs causes the creation of a file on the web server.  in my case, they
are the same server, so this is just a touch, but this touch could be triggered via
e-mail.
i then have a cron job that wakes up periodically that checks if this file exists.
if so, it removes the file/cvs ups/builds.

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:43:57PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:05:07PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> > When the NCLUG web-pages were being set up in CVS, Willie was talking about
> 
> That's "willy", dude :-)
> 
> > a mechanism for causing the final pages to be updated immediately when a
> > commit was done.  However, this was never implemented, so right now it's
> > just doing a checkout every 15 minutes or something...
> > 
> > I see that there's a "CVS/Checkin.prog", which gets called when a "cvs
> > commit" is done.  However, this apparently is run while there's still a
> > lock held, so you can't just do a "cvs update" and be done with it.
> 
> My implementation sent an email to the webserver user which upon receipt
> took a local lock, ran cvs up, ran make, slept for 180 seconds and
> released the lock.
> 
> The delay was to ensure that you couldn't DoS the CVS server this way.
> 
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