Create a symbolic link for a file in perforce - perforce

I have a file in one branch //depot/Dest/file1.txt and other branch is //depot/Src/
I want to have a symbolic link from //depot/Src/file1.txt pointing to //depot/Dest/file1.txt by using p4v .
Can I do that using p4v ?

Option 1: Use streams. Stream definitions let you have a single depot file shared among multiple streams via the "import" path type.
Stream: //depot/Src
Paths:
share ...
Stream: //depot/Dest
Parent: //depot/Src
Paths:
share ...
import file1.txt
Option 2: Create an OS symlink and add it to the depot. I believe you can do this with a file as well as with a directory.

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how to avoid mixture of \ and / in file paths when joining paths in Docker containerized Python code

As far as I'm aware I'm using best practices to define paths (using raw strings) and how I go about joining them (using os.path.join()), e.g.
import os
fdir = r'C:\Code\...\samples'
fpath = os.path.join(fdir, 'fname.ext')
and doing so has not caused me any problems when running my code within a Python or command shell. If I print fpath to the console I get consistent use of \s in the path:
C:\Code...\samples\fname.ext
But when I run a Docker containerized version of the code and run the image I get the error:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'C:\Code\...\samples/fname.ext'
I don't understand why os.path.join() has used a / to join fdir and fname.ext when the rest of the path included \\. It doesn't do this when I run the code outside of the container.
I have tried using os.path.normpath():
fpath = os.path.join(fdir, 'fname.ext')
fpath = os.path.normpath(fpath)
as discussed here, and os.sep.join():
fpath = os.sep.join([fdir, 'fname.ext'])
as covered here, and Path().joinpath():
from pathlib import Path
fpath = Path(fdir).joinpath('fname.ext')
as well as Path() / 'path_to_add':
fpath = Path(fdir) / 'fname.ext'
as discussed here, but in every case I end up with the same result using os.path.join().
Can someone please help me to understand what is going on and how to create consistent paths that will work whether I run the code in Python in a Windows environment, or in a Docker container?
Update Nov. 16:
In trying to keep my question brief I think I've left out details that are crucial. Apologies to those who have kindly taken the time to offer suggestions based on my incomplete description of the problem.
My code needs to import/export files from/to directories that are defined within a user-specified configuration file.
So the configuration file has a section of code where the user defines variables and paths, e.g.
samplesDir = r"path-to-samples-directory"
The variables are stored in a dictionary of dictionaris and stored as a .json.
At the start of the code the user defines the key that selects the dictionary of interest so that at various parts in my code when a file needs to be imported/exported, the paths are at hand.
So back to my example, samplesDir is stored in the configuration dictionary, cfgDict, so all I need to do is append the file name:
sampleFpath = os.path.join(sampleDir, sampleFname)
and sampleFname is determined based on other variables.
Because of the dynamic nature of the variables (including directory paths and file paths), I think it rules out the use of static path defined in a .yml with Docker Compose.
Update Nov. 18:
It may help to include a few more details and some screenshots.
The above screenshot shows the file and folder structure of the src directory containing the source code, the main app.py script for command-line use, the Dockerfile, etc.
The configs folder contains JSON files that includes variables, paths to directories and files. The user can create configuration files either by copying an existing one and modifying the entries, or configuration files can be generated by calling config.py.
Within config.py I have pre-set variables and paths, so that the directory path to the configuration files (configs), sample files (sample_DROs) and others (e.g. fiducials) are all within src.
I don't anticipate any reason why the user would want to store the config files anywhere else, nor do I expect them to want to use different sample files (or move them elsewhere). However, they will undoubtedly create their own fiducials and may decide not to store them in the fiducials directory (i.e. somewhere not within the src directory).
Likewise I have pre-set the download directory (based on the parameters stored within the configuration files, files are fetched from a server and downloaded) to be the default Downloads directory:
rootDownloadDir = os.path.join(Path.home(), "Downloads", "xnat_downloads")
Those files are later imported, processed, and the outputs are (by default) exported into sub-directories within rootDownloadDir.
Within Dockerfile I set the working directory of the container to be that of the source code and copy all of the contents of src (with the exception of some directories defined in .dockerignore):
WORKDIR C:/Code/WP1.3_multiple_modalities/src
...
COPY . .
so that the structure of the container mimics that of WORKDIR:
Hence I have allowed for flexibility in import/export directories, and they are by default a combination of paths within and outside of the src directory. And so, the code executed within the container will need to access files both within and outside of src.
That said, I don't know what rootDownloadDir will look like when os.path.join(Path.home(), "Downloads", "xnat_downloads") is run within the container.
This has got me thinking - Is it bad practice to set the download directory outside of src?
Returning to the original error:
the sample file is in the container:
From the actual behavior I can suppose that the container is based on Unix-like image. Path separator is / in such systems.
To build an environment-independent path which works inside and outside of the container you need the following steps:
Mounting of host folder to container directory.
Environment variable inside and outside the container.
I can show an example of how this is achievable via docker-compose tool and its configuration file docker-compose.yml:
# docker-compose.yml file
version: '3'
services:
<service_name>: # your service name here
image: <image_name> # name of image your container is built on
environment:
- SAMPLES_PATH=/samples
volumes:
- C:\Code\somepath\samples:/samples
In your python code you can use the following structure:
import os
fdir = os.getenv('SAMPLES_PATH', r'C:\Code\...\samples')
fpath = os.path.join(fdir, 'fname.ext')

Can Dirsync for Python sync files and folders in two directions

I want to create a script to sync files between two directories, and was going to utilise Dirsync and Python 3 for this.
from dirsync import sync
sync('C:/03py/Sync/Sync1','C:/03py/Sync/Sync2','sync', twoway=True, create=True)
After running the file for the first time, the folders are synced. I then put a dummy file and folder into the target directory and reran the above script, hoping the file and folder would be copied back into the source directory. However I get the following:
Only in C:/03py/Sync/Sync2
<< TESTTWOFOLDER
<< _TESTTWOWAY.txt
I am not certain if I am using the above commands correctly.
i don't know if this helps...
from dirsync import sync
source_path = 'C:\\wamp\\www\\first-python-app\\http'
target_path = 'C:\\wamp\\www\\first-python-app\\dev'
sync(target_path, source_path, 'sync', twoway=True, purge=True)
sync(source_path, target_path, 'sync')

TeamCity: Adding additional logs to artifacts zip file

In TeamCity, it is possible to specify the 'Artifact Paths' so that all files and folders from a directory can be added to a Zip file:
E:\Logs\**\* => Logs.zip
However, I would like to add additional log files to a sub folder within the zip file. Is it possible to do this without an additional build step to move/copy the files? For example:
E:\Logs\**\* => Logs.zip
D:\ThirdParty\Logs\*.txt => Logs.zip\ThirdParty\
It is possible to specify the path inside a zip when you are creating an artefact
You just need to set a ! after the extension, in order to indicate that the content will be put inside.
/logs/*.log => Logs.zip
/out/*.txt => Logs.zip!/ThirdParty

How can I refer to the current puppet module's files directory?

This is most likely an anti-pattern, but I'd like to know nonetheless:
I need to extract a tgz which is in puppet and then move the contents somewhere else. Is it possible, in a puppet exec { }, to refer to the file where it is stored on disk?
For example, puppet is available at /usr/local/puppet, and the tgz file I need it in /usr/local/puppet/modules/components/files/file.tgz. In the exec { } can I do something like command => "/bin/cp $modules/components/files/file.tgz /somewhere_else" ? Or do I have to declare a file { source => "..." } block first?
Both approaches are correct if you run puppet with puppet apply.
In master-agent architecture using exec to copy file probably will not work at all.
In my opinion using file resource is more "puppet-like" but is has one significant drawback.
You can use:
file { '/some_path/somewhere_else':
source => '/usr/local/puppet/modules/components/files/file.tgz',
}
This will create file /some_path/somewhere_else with the same content as /usr/local/puppet/modules/components/files/file.tgz (it will make a copy of the original file).
But if /some_path doesn't not exist in the file system, the command will fail.
If you are working with tgz files you can also consider using some of the archive puppet modules e.g gini.
UPDATE:
I can propose two approaches:
Use puppet file server to serve files (or define module path for old puppet versions). Next just use it e.g:
file { '/some_path/somewhere_else':
source => "puppet:///modules/components/file.tgz',
}
Define custom facter fact 1, 2 that points path in your filesystem containing required files. E.g:
file { '/some_path/somewhere_else':
source => "${::my_custom_fact}/some_path/file.tgz',
}
I do not think that any of the core facts might be useful for you.

Sourcing Puppet files from outside of modules

I'm installing a package from a module (Nginx in this specific case) and would like to include a configuration file from outside of the module, i.e. from a top level files directory parallel to the top level manifests directory. I don't see any way to source the file though without including it in a module or in my current Vagrant environment referring to the absolute local path.
Does Puppet allow for sourcing files from outside of modules as described in the documentation?
if I understand your question correctly, you can.
In your module a simple code like this
file { '/path/to/file':
ensure => present,
source => [
"puppet:///files/${fqdn}/path/to/file",
"puppet:///files/${hostgroup}/path/to/file",
"puppet:///files/${domain}/path/to/file",
"puppet:///files/global/path/to/file",
],
}
will do the job. The /path/to/file will be sourced using a file located in the "files" Puppet share.
(in the example above, it search in 4 different locations).
update maybe you're talking about a directory to store files which is not shared by Puppet fileserver (look at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/file_serving.html), and in this case you can't i think, Vagrant or not, but you can add it to your Puppet fileserver to do it. I thinks it's the best (and maybe only) way to do it.
If you have a number of Vagrant VMs you can simply store files within your Vagrant project directory (containing your VagrantFile).
This directory is usually available to all VMs as /vagrant within the VM on creation.
If you want other directories on your computer to be available to your VMs just add the following to your VagrantFile
# see http://docs.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/config/vm/share_folder.html
config.vm.share_folder "v-packages", "/vagrant_packages", "../../dpkg"
Then to use the files within puppet you can simply treat them as local files to the VM
# bad example, bub basically use 'source => 'file:///vagrant/foo/bar'
file { '/opt/cassandra':
ensure => directory,
replace => true,
purge => true,
recurse => true,
source => 'file:///vagrant/conf/dist/apache-cassandra-1.2.0',
}
This is probably only wise to do if you only using local puppet manifests/modules.
Probably too late to help bennylope, but for others who happen across this question, as I did before figuring it out for myself ...
Include stuff like this in your Vagrantfile ...
GUEST_PROVISIONER_CONFDIR = "/example/destination/path"
HOST_PROVISIONER_CONFDIR = "/example/source/path"
config.vm.synced_folder HOST_PROVISIONER_CONFIDIR, GUEST_PROVISIONER_CONFDIR
puppet.options = "--fileserverconfig='#{GUEST_PROVISIONER_CONFDIR}/fileserver.conf'"
Then make sure /example/source/path contains the referenced fileserver.conf file. It should look something like ...
[foo]
path /example/destination/path
allow *
Now, assuming example-file.txt exists in /example/source/path, the following will work in your manifests:
source => "puppet:///foo/example-file.txt",
See:
Puppet configuration reference entry for fileserverconfig
Serving Files From Custom Mount Points

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