RE: catalyst enhancement

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

It appeared as if you wanted to use specs online (on several
pcs). I see
your point, but either python already lets you to write the
paths with a
environment variable:

portage_confdir
=$/portage_config/webserver

or if it doesn't, a small script with sed would do it,
right?
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