Savane setup

As of 2024-09, Savane is installed and runs on mgt1, download0, vcs0, vcs1, vcs2, frontend2. The installation procedure is quite uniform.

The bootstrapped Git repository is located at /opt/src/savane; the package is built in /root/build-savane/build. /root/build-savane has a link savane-bootstrapped pointing at /opt/src/savane.

The configuration is maintained in /etc/savane: either Savane is configured with --sysconfdir=/etc, or /opt/savane/etc/savane contain links to the files from /etc/savane.

Basic steps to update Savane after logging in as root the machine in question are:

cd ~/build-savane/savane-bootstrapped; git fetch origin
git diff --color=always HEAD origin/frontend
git reset --hard origin/frontend; autoreconf -vf
cd ~/build-savane/build; make all install{,check}

Additional steps the admin does in certain cases are:

Check the command line of configure,

~/build-savane/build/config.status --config

and add new options.
Backup the previous installation,

rm -fr /opt/savane~ cp -a /opt/savane{,~}
Update configuration files in /etc/savane. 'make install' keeps the existing configuration files unchanged.

Common settings

The existing database from the 'internal' VM is used, so the --disable-database configure option should be used.

Machine specifics

frontend

The only machine where --disable-frontend is not used.

mgt

The users don't interact with this machine, no access is provided, so the source code isn't offered.

vcs

The offer from sv_membersh suggests an rsync option that omits the '.git' directory, so a ChangeLog is generated from Git logs as a way to list the changes made in original software. (As of 2024-09, sv_membersh isn't used on vcs machines, but that doesn't invalidate the Savane setup above and the possibility to get the corresponding source code of the running instance.)

download

The configure script runs with --enable-mirror, that switches on mirror-redirect and other mirror-related scripts.

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