Some preliminary steps to automate the update of the various special files

in CVSROOT.  The idea being that the modules file is changed to run
updateCVSROOT instead of mkmodules.  This will eventually do the necessary
syncing that is currently done manually.

2 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/CVSROOT/mkavail b/CVSROOT/mkavail
index 57c276c8515a..fa21f74171da 100755
--- a/CVSROOT/mkavail
+++ b/CVSROOT/mkavail
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Perl module to convert a CVS avail file into a majordomo alias file.
 #
 
-$MAILING_LIST = '/home/mail/cvs-committers';
-$AVAIL_FILE = '/home/ncvs/CVSROOT/avail';
+$MAILING_LIST = 'cvs-committers';
+$AVAIL_FILE = 'avail';
 
 open (MAIL, ">$MAILING_LIST");
 open (AVAIL, "<$AVAIL_FILE");
diff --git a/CVSROOT/updateCVSROOT b/CVSROOT/updateCVSROOT
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..3de3ee3d4f67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CVSROOT/updateCVSROOT
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+#
+# Called in place of mkmodules to take care of files mkmodules doesn't know.
+#
+# $Id$
+
+PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
+export PATH
+
+FILELIST="avail mkavail commitcheck cvs_acls.pl commit_prep.pl log_accum.pl"
+FILELIST="${FILELIST} cvsedit edithook fixcvsroot"
+
+cd $1
+
+for i in $FILELIST
+do 
+  find $i,v -newer $i -exec co -u $i
+done
+
+#find avail,v -newer cvs-committers -exec ./mkavail
+#cmp -s cvs-committers /home/mail/cvs-committers || {
+#  echo "/home/mail/cvs-committers is different to \$CVSROOT/cvs-committers"
+#  echo "please check to see what needs to be updated..."
+#}
+
+exec mkmodules $1