[crossfire] autogeneration of news file

[Brendan Lally]

On 8/18/05, Rick Tanner <
     
     leaf at real-time.com
     
     > wrote:
>
     
      This *might* be a start.  I've been using cvs2cl to create a change log
     
     >
     
      file from cvs.  I haven't been successful in using the -xml option and
     
     >
     
      then converting to .html, but that's another story.
     
     
hmm, with a little bit of bash I get the following....

cvs2cl.pl --hide-filenames --no-indent -f lib/newstmp --no-times -l
"-d>$(ls -l lib/news | cut -d ' ' -f 7)"; grep -v ^[0123456789]
lib/newstmp | grep [:alpha:] > lib/news; rm lib/newstmp

this requires that
1) it be run from the base server directory crossfire/
2) crossfire/lib/ is writable
3) cvs2cl is in $PATH

it generates a starred list of changes since the date of the last news
file, as long as the datestamp on the news file is correct, this will
be the list required.