Hm, so I´ll try to write a .sh to accomplish the same and only trigger this
script via fab for now.
But obviously it would be nice to have such functionality in fabfiles, so:
no Linux guru around here who has an idea on why the vars are not being
available?

Cheers
carsten


2008/10/14 Christian Vest Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Could be that I never actually tested rolling back like that.
>
> Really strange. I can confirm that it dosn't work for me either, but I
> have no idea why that is.
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Carsten Kraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > am new to fabric and to Linux in general.
> > I´m working with the sample provided in /doc/samples as of
> > commit cc336b5a8210e6b34082aeebef113b6e8d4431eb. (How do U reference git
> > 'revisions' btw? : )
> > In the sample´s rollback() there is sth like:
> > sudo(
> >         "export PREV=$(ls -1 %(someProjectVar)s|tail -1);" +
> > ...
> > )
> > ..which sets the var $PREV for later use.
> > However, for me this isnt working - on my box(Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop) the
> var
> > $PREV will just be empty.
> > I even tried
> > run(
> >         "export FOO='bar';" +
> >         "echo $FOO;"
> > )
> > This will also result in an empty 'out:' when I run it from fab - when I
> run
> > this being logged in on the target machine with the same user, it´s
> working
> > fine.
> > Is there an alternative, how I could store eg. the most recent foldername
> in
> > a var for rolling back purposes?
> > Apologies, if this is off-topic & thx for any pointer!!
> > Carsten
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> Venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
> Christian Vest Hansen.
>
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