CVS commit logging with Activitymail

We’d been using SyncMail from SourceForge to email out diffs from all the Openswan commits. When we upgraded to CVS 1.12, all this broke. We waited for syncmail to get updated, but that never happened.

Instead, I found ActivityMail which is written in Perl instead of Python, and supported the new log format. However, the docs are less than clear on dealing with CVS 1.12, and the examples are wrong. Here’s what I’m using:

^openswan /usr/local/bin/activitymail -q -d -P "%p" -f "%{sVv}" -t cvs@lists.openswan.org

We use -q, since any stdout messages confused some of the CVS clients. The key was the “’s, as they are required in CVS 1.12 and higher. With this in place, we’re back to flooding our inboxes with CVS commit logs :)

November 8, 2005 · Filed Under Uncategorized

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