Y2M - the YaST2 meta tool

This is a simple tool to help you to checkout all YaST modules, while maintaining the directory structure of the former svn repo.

With this tool you can

• checkout all or just your favorite modules
• switch all (or favorite) modules to a specific branch
• run git pull on all (or favorite) modules

with just one command.

Note: There is no need to use this tool. You can do everything manually as well.

Installation

cd $CHECKOUTDIR
git clone git@github.com:yast/yast-meta meta
cd meta
ln -s `pwd`/y2m ~/bin/

Usage

y2m <command> [<modules>,..]

commands

clone        : run git clone for <modules>
up|pull      : run git pull for a <modules>
co|br <name> : run git checkout to switch to branch <name> for <modules>

modules

'ALL' : applies to all current known yast modules
'FAV' : applies to only your favorite modules, set in ~/.y2m
<lowercase string> : applies to the named modules

Authentication

The tool will work even without GitHub authentication, unless you share an IP with the rest of your company, in which case it will fail because of rate limiting. To get an 83 times better rate, authenticate:

Generate a new access token (no scopes are needed), and set up a .netrc file:

touch     ~/.netrc
chmod 600 ~/.netrc
echo   >> ~/.netrc "machine api.github.com login your_username password your_token"

Reserved Branch and Tag Name Prefixes

In order to maintain a certain consistency between the modules there are some prefixes that you should not use for your own branches/tags. They are reserved for openSUSE or SLE releases.

Reserved prefixed for branches and tags:

• 'openSUSE-'
• 'SLE-'
• 'Code-'

See also: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_SVN_to_GIT