Hi Richard and Fossil folks, I'm Lonnie Abelbeck, a developer with the AstLinux Open Source project ( http://www.astlinux.org ) an x86 image, only 50 MB in size, geared primarily to implement the Asterisk PBX, but we do a lot more than just a PBX.
Richard kindly requested I forward some info here describing how we have implemented Fossil, currently only in our development version of AstLinux. I hope you don't mind a few details... If you are not aware, Asterisk is configured with a lot of text *.conf files, additionally our AstLinux system is configured via a directory full of text *.conf files, usually auto-generated from a web interface. Fossil hit our radar, and we wondered if it could be used to track changes to these configuration files in a way a non-developer type could easily understand. Long story short, success, Fossil is a gem ! BTW, the decision to use ANSI C was absolutely perfect. I am struck by how small and efficient Fossil is. Our users typically now use Intel Atom-class boards, but we still have users with 500 Mhz AMD Geode boards and Fossil is "snappy" on those old boards. We have put together some documentation for the upcoming AstLinux 1.2.4 release containing Fossil, this should give you a flavor of how we have simplified the configuration to only relevant configuration files within AstLinux. Fossil - Software Configuration Management http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:tt_fossil On the network side we implement fossil with "fossil server --localhost --port 8055 ..." and then use lighttpd to proxy only HTTPS /admin/fossil/ to 127.0.0.1:8055 . Note this took a little patching to Fossil to make this work, as the "--baseurl URL" option is not complete enough, partially because of lighttpd's somewhat limited mod_proxy module. Fortunately that patch is fairly simple: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/astlinux/code/branches/1.0/package/fossil/fossil-0001-proxy-base.patch Since any HTTPS access to /admin/fossil/ is authenticated by lighttpd, we set Fossil's "nobody" permissions to "a" (admin) and add the "admin" user for "s" (setup) permissions. The Fossil repository is by default maintained only locally for each system, but some AstLinux integrators with many boxes may see fit to relocate the repo remotely and clone it locally. Our build system is an older version of Buildroot (which we maintain) and cross compile using the "crosstool-NG" toolchain for x86. Here is our Fossil package implementation: SourceForge svn repo for fossil package: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/astlinux/code/branches/1.0/package/fossil/ -or- http://sourceforge.net/p/astlinux/code/HEAD/tree/branches/1.0/package/fossil/ (Yes SourceForge SVN, our project is over 10 years old, old habits die hard :-) ) Thanks to those here making Fossil the world-class project it is ! Lonnie _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
