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authorDennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@camel.ams6.corp.booking.com>2009-11-21 21:51:46 +0100
committerH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2009-11-23 13:38:04 +0100
commit3482f01a8cf921481e2b8b8f0ae6d04cb2523bb8 (patch)
treeec9bc26fdcc9706e823d31b967ab6c27388ca655 /pod/perlrepository.pod
parentfabb67aac748c1bf94bbc4a173a67dbd9a00b4df (diff)
downloadperl-3482f01a8cf921481e2b8b8f0ae6d04cb2523bb8.tar.gz
More info about camel in perlrepository.pod
Signed-off-by: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
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@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ directory.
If you are a committer, then you can fetch a copy of the repository
that you can push back on with:
- git clone ssh://perl5.git.perl.org/gitroot/perl.git perl-ssh
+ git clone ssh://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git perl-ssh
This clones the repository and makes a local copy in the F<perl-ssh>
directory.
@@ -72,11 +72,7 @@ F<.git/config> where you will see something like:
change that to something like this:
[remote "origin"]
- url = ssh://perl5.git.perl.org/gitroot/perl.git
-
-NOTE: there are symlinks set up so that the /gitroot is optional and
-since SSH is the default protocol you can actually shorten the "url" to
-C<perl5.git.perl.org:/perl.git>.
+ url = ssh://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git
You can also set up your user name and e-mail address. For example
@@ -98,16 +94,29 @@ to push your changes back with the C<camel> remote:
The C<fetch> command just updates the C<camel> refs, as the objects
themselves should have been fetched when pulling from C<origin>.
-The committers have access to 2 servers that serve
+=head2 A NOTE ON CAMEL AND DROMEDARY
+
+The committers have SSH access to the two servers that serve
C<perl5.git.perl.org>. One is C<perl5.git.perl.org> itself (I<camel>),
which is the 'master' repository. The second one is
C<users.perl5.git.perl.org> (I<dromedary>), which can be used for
general testing and development. Dromedary syncs the git tree from
camel every few minutes, you should not push there. Both machines also
-have a full CPAN mirror. To share files with the general public,
-dromedary serves your ~/public_html/ as
+have a full CPAN mirror in /srv/CPAN, please use this. To share files
+with the general public, dromedary serves your ~/public_html/ as
C<http://users.perl5.git.perl.org/~yourlogin/>
+These hosts have fairly strict firewalls to the outside. Outgoing, only
+rsync, ssh and git are allowed. For http and ftp, you can use
+http://webproxy:3128 as proxy. Incoming, the firewall tries to detect
+attacks and blocks IP addresses with suspicious activity. This
+sometimes (but very rarely) has false positives and you might get
+blocked. The quickest way to get unblocked is to notify the admins.
+
+These two boxes are owned, hosted, and operated by booking.com. You can
+reach the sysadmins in #p5p on irc.perl.org or via mail to
+C<perl5-porters@perl.org>
+
=head1 OVERVIEW OF THE REPOSITORY
Once you have changed into the repository directory, you can inspect