CVS Server That Automatically Builds Stuff?

[SMurf]

Hello,

In my quest to farm my projects folder off my oh-so-single-point-of-failure laptop, I have wondered about the following:-

Something like a Raspberry Pi running a CVS server that's HTTP-based for brevity, detects changes in projects and automagically rebuilds the binaries overnight.

Now I could huff and puff and cobble this together, but wondered if something similar already exists?

[anduril462]

Googling "cvs hook scripts" turned up this, among other results: CVS hook scripts – sourceforge. I doubt there will be a perfect drop-in solution that works with your particular build setup, but there may be something that gets you half way there, at least.

There's also something like Atlassian Bamboo, if you want something a little more complete and professional. I've never used it, but I like some of their other products, and their prices are good for personal projects. Bamboo is a $10 flat-fee for the basic self-hosted version. I'm not sure how well it integrates with CVS though. Any reason you're not using SVN or Git or something a little more recent? You'll probably find better support for this kind of thing with a more modern VCS.

[cyberfish]

At a place I worked, the build machine would automatically build after every commit, and if the build breaks, try to figure out who probably caused it by looking at the revision history, and send an email to that person. Most useful build server ever.

It was a custom designed system, though.

[Mario F.]

You don't really need to detect changes if you are building overnight. Just cron it in your RPi. This means you can just make a default linux installation, get your favorite CVS and make your crontab. There's no need for special software.

[SMurf]

SVN! Sorry I think I meant that, it's just that I haven't run a CVS for my own stuff before. I have used TortoiseSVN to look at Internet-based projects though.

Looks like I could try Apache httpd + mod_ssl + mod_dav_svn + Subversion, plus crontabbed build task. Thanks