Different paths for different hosts

[jkoop]

Let's say I want to synchronise my home directory on two computers (alfa, and bravo), but my username (and therefore, the path of my home dir) are different.

Perhaps a sneakersync.cfg like this:

modules:
  - root:
    - alfa: /home/username
    - bravo: /home/something-else

And if I try to sync with a third computer (charlie), it should die with an error like so:

Error: hostname "charlie" not found in sneakersync.cfg

[lamyj]

Interesting idea; should be not too difficult to implement. Do you assume that the home dirs are strictly the same or that some content is specific to each computer? In the former case, we can keep your config scheme as is, while in the latter we will probably need to add host-specific include/exclude filters.

[jkoop]

It would be nice to have host-specific *clude filters, but I'll make that a separate issue.

[lamyj]

This should be solved by e957205. The behavior is the same as before if the module root is a string (i.e. use it on all hosts), and I followed the behavior you defined in your first comment: use host-specific root if defined, fails if host is not defined.

Note that I'm using the hostname as returned by socket.gethostname: depending on the system, it may not be the FQDN. Let me know if it works for you or if I need to look for both gethostname and getfqdn.