Mercurial repository for l10n en-US files only from the frenchmozilla team

Philippe — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:24:00 +0200

Starting from the move to Mercurial, it's not possible to pull from the repository only the en-US files. With the help of the bind mount we have successfully made an hg repository with only the needed */locales/en-US/ files and directories. (11 Mo for the en-US files against more than 670 Mo for the whole repositories)

It is accessible from http://hg.frenchmozilla.fr (DNS servers may not be updated yet from your location). The en-US repositories are updated each 30 minutes and if the changes include en-US ones, they are synchronized in our repository (feeds are up-to-date).

Our repository watches the following directories at the moment :

browser
dom
editor
extensions
mail
netwerk
other-licenses
security
suite
toolkit

The mozilla-central, comm-central, and dom-inspector are included (mobile-browser is on its way). Note that since venkman and irc are not (yet ?) directly on the mozilla-central repository, it is also not in ours.

You can also clone our repository if you want with :

$ hg clone http://hg.frenchmozilla.fr/

The only thing I'm not happy with is that the original comment of the en-US commit is not reported to the hg.frenchmozilla.fr comment. I have some hints on how to make this, but it is not yet implemented (if someone wants to help, he is welcome).

####### Technical part, how it is done. #############

Firstly, I pulled the following 4 repositories :

$ hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/
$ hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/
$ hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/
$ hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/dom-inspector/

This gave me 4 directories.

For each en-US localizable directories, I reproduced the l10n scheme in a new L10N_EN-US directory: browser dom editor extensions mail network other-licenses security suite toolkit

For instance, for the browser directory : L10N-EN-US/browser/locales/en-US/

I "bind" mounted the en-US directories from the hg.mozilla.org repositories into my new directory. That gave me for the browser one, into the /etc/fstab file (in one line):

/srv/d_frmoz/DONNEES/HG/mozilla-central/browser/locales/en-US
/srv/d_frmoz/DONNEES/HG/L10N-EN-US/browser/locales/en-US none defaults,bind 0 0

When all the repositories are mounted, I created our mercurial repository with the command:

$ hg init
$ hg update

Here is the 30 minute cron scheduled script:

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#!/bin/bash

cd /srv/d_frmoz/DONNEES/HG/comm-central/
hg pull -u

cd /srv/d_frmoz/DONNEES/HG/mozilla-central/
hg pull -u

cd /srv/d_frmoz/DONNEES/HG/mobile-browser/
hg pull -u

cd /srv/d_frmoz/DONNEES/HG/dom-inspector/
hg pull -u

cd  /srv/d_frmoz/DONNEES/HG/L10N-EN-US/

hg addremove
hg diff > ../diff.tmp

if [ -s ../diff.tmp ]; then
 date=`date`
 suffix=$(date +%s)
 cp ../diff.tmp ../DIFF/diff_$suffix.txt
 rm -f ../diff.tmp
 hg commit -m "Automated commit @ $date"
fi

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This script pulls the changes from the hg.mozilla.org repositories and if there is a change in the en-US part, it commits it to our repository with a comment where the date is included (I need to find a way with hg log to put the original comment also).

The Mercurial server is then served with our local Apache server for the public.

Hope this will help other localizers.

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Mercurial repository for l10n en-US files only from the frenchmozilla team