Question thread #3

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer.

Comments

[chagrined]

Well I had to tweak some things but I think I eventually sort of made this work. :) So thanks, that was helpful. One weird thing -- I noticed there's no ssldocs directory inside dw-free? At least I don't seem to have one. But there are two (identical) copies of the .css file I changed, one in htdocs/stc/widgets and the other in ssldocs/stc/widgets. But since my dw-free directory contains no ssldocs directory, the patchfile is only showing the differences in the htdocs version.

[denise]

That's okay! ssldocs is an automagically-generated thing to allow for certain things to be served securely without errors or warnings. Just ignore it. :)

[chagrined]

Okay, well, I attempted to upload what I came up with on bugzilla, so we'll see how that goes. ^__^

[pauamma]

To elaborate on what denise said: to decide what needs to be copied where updating live from cvs/, cvsreport.pl uses $LJHOME/cvs/multicvs.conf(*) (and multicvs-local.conf and multicvs-private.conf if they exist). If you'll look at that file, you'll see a bunch of lines like:

dw-free/htdocs/shop/ ssldocs/shop/

which instruct cvsreport.pl to copy from the first directory to the second directory.

(*) That file itself is copied from $LJHOME/dw-free/cvs/multicvs.conf each time you run cvsreport.pl -s, but the new content isn't used to decide what to copy. That's why you occasionally need to run it twice in a row.