build/test integration: best practice?

[Jason Trenouth]

On 08/05/2010 11:24, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Jason Trenouth <jason.trenouth at linguamatics.com> writes:
>
>   
>> On 04/05/2010 21:40, Greg Ward wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> The other alternative would be to download an archive over HTTP from
>>> hgweb on the main server. That would save a couple of hundred MB in
>>> /var/cache on the build machine, but it would increase server and
>>> network load, and I still wouldn't be able to investigate build
>>> failures as easily.
>>>       
>> This sounds like a closer like-for-like replacement. How would you do
>> that?
>>     
>
> Setup hgweb, enable the archives and use wget to fetch it. We're talking
> about zipfile and tarballs like this one:
>
>   http://selenic.com/hg/archive/tip.tar.gz
>
>   

Hi Martin,

Thanks. The hgweb + archive + wget suggestion helped me find similar 
recommendations:

<http://www.answerspice.com/c119/1488981/is-it-possible-to-get-the-latest-set-of-files-from-mercurial-without-creating-a-local-repository>

<http://old.nabble.com/hg-archive-from-a-remote-repository-td28080355.html>

__Jason



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