How I used baz to start my little project

This is a little step by step tutorial for those struggling to use Arch like I am right now. This assumes you haven’t used it before, but know enough about cvs. I don’t do a lot of the –bclark_redhat–dev–craziness that you see in tutorials because it’s just a little too strange for me, even if it’s the “right way” to do it. The Following Tux goes into a little too much depth to be a really good first time tutorial.

Tell baz who I am.

baz my-id "Bryan Clark <bclark_-_redhat>"

Create my archive locally first.

baz make-archive bclark_-_redhat--gnomearchive /home/clarkbw/.arch

Make this archive my default one, I guess in case I have others… which I don’t.

baz my-default-archive bclark_-_redhat--gnomearchive

Go into my source directory.

cd background-channels

Update: Skip down, see note below.

Now I init the tree, because I guess it needs that.

baz init-tree background-channels--dev--0.1

I now need to add my files in there.

baz add *.in *.am *.glade \
	gnome-background-properties gnome-background-channel-subscribe

baz add background_channels/

baz add background_channels/*.py

Check that I didn’t miss anything.

baz lint

Add the files that I forgot to.

baz add .arch-inventory
baz add background_channels/.arch-inventory

Then do the import, don’t know why I need this step either…

baz import

Update: Continue from here, see note below.

baz import -a

And this too? Seems like I should commit at least once.

baz commit

Mirroring my stuff

Now to put this on the GNOME server for easier distribution. Instructions provided from (Mirroring Archives with Bazaar)

baz make-archive -l -m bclark_-_redhat--gnomearchive \
	sftp://clarkbw@www.gnome.org/home/users/clarkbw/public_html/arch

Test to see that I can push stuff to the GNOME mirror.

baz archive-mirror

Helpful commands for you to get my stuff

Tell baz who you are.

baz my-id "Name <email@domain.org>"

Register the archive and… set it as your default

baz register-archive http://gnome.org/~clarkbw/arch/
	Setting arch cache to default path: /root/.arch-cache
	Registering Archive: bclark_-_redhat--gnomearchive

baz my-default-archive bclark_-_redhat--gnomearchive

List the different projects I have in my archive.

baz categories

List branches of the category from the category list.

baz branches $category

Checkout that shizzle from my archive.

baz get $branch

Phew! So that’s it. I think I did most of that right, at least everything works. Now caillon and I can hack around on the background channels!

Update: According to the snorp I can remove the sections from (and including) init-tree to the import section and get the same results.