commit 378f9360b6ef2c17edfea83a0ba5dd38ffa2c98a
parent b62625b79ee16f841d0a3693aea3d8521cc6a2ba
Author: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:10:47 +0200
Rewrite manpage to remove duplicates and be more clear.
Diffstat:
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1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drist.1 b/drist.1
@@ -19,89 +19,68 @@ has been designed to be simple, so it may not offer all the features
you want.
When you run
-.Nm Ns
+.Nm
, it will look at a set of special directories in the current working
directory.
-
-Here is the whole sequence, with
+.Nm
+will connect to
+.Ar server
+via ssh(1) and request the remote
.Em HOSTNAME
-being the result of
-.Ql uname -n
-on the remote system:
+by calling
+.Ql uname -n.
+
+After that following steps will be executed:
.Bl -enum -offset indent -compact
.It
-if folder
+If folder
.Ar files
exists, its content is copied to
.Ar server
+using rsync(1).
.It
-if folder
+If folder
.Ar files- Ns Em HOSTNAME
exists, its content copied to
.Ar server
+using rsync(1).
.It
-if folder
+If folder
.Ar absent
-exists, filenames in it are removed from
-.Ar server
+exists, filenames in it are deleted on
+.Ar server.
.It
-if folder
+If folder
.Ar absent- Ns Em HOSTNAME
-exists, filenames in it are removed from
-.Ar server
+exists, filenames in it are deleted on
+.Ar server.
.It
-if file
+If file
.Ar script
-exists, it is executed remotely on
-.Ar server
+exists, it is copied to
+.Ar server and executed there.
.It
-if file
+If file
.Ar script- Ns Em HOSTNAME
-exists, it is executed remotely on
-.Ar server
+exists, it is copied to
+.Ar server and executed there.
.El
The presence of each of those files or directories is optional.
-If the directory
+All files in either
.Ar files
-is present, its content will be copied to the remote
-.Ar server
-relatively to the root / directory. You can create
+or
+.Ar absent
+or
.Ar files- Ns Em HOSTNAME
-with
+etc. are relative to the root (/) directory. The specific files
+for
.Em HOSTNAME
-being the result of the command
-.Ql uname -n
-on the remote server. The content of this folder will be copied to the
-remote server after the
-.Ar files
-directory has been processed. This folder is useful for adding
-.Em HOSTNAME Ns -specific
-files.
-
-After the files are copied,
-.Nm
-will look at two the folders
-.Ar absent
-and
-.Ar absent Ns Em HOSTNAME
-in the current working directory.
-.Nm
-will remotely delete all files listed in this directory tree.
-
-Finally, the file
-.Ar script
-be copied to the remote server, executed and deleted (shall the script
-succeed or not). If
-.Ar script- Ns Em HOSTNAME
-exists, it will be processed in the same way. This is useful if you
-need to run
-.Em HOSTNAME Ns -specific
-commands.
+are worked on after the common files.
-I recommend writing small "modules" which would install the required
+I recommend to write small "modules" which would install the required
packages for a task and provide the files needed, rather than writing a
full-blown module for deploying an entire system at once.
