Plugin Information
This plugin provides integration with Serena's PVCS Version Manager SCM. ConfiguringConfiguration of the PVCS plugin should be fairly straightforward, but my experience with PVCS is that nothing about PVCS is straightforward, simple, or in line with how other SCM systems work. This plugin was developed around the PCLI command-line tool, and I basically had to bludgeon that utility into submission.... System-level config
Specify the path to the pcli executable, or just use "pcli" if it is in the environment path of the user running Hudson. Basic config
Project rootSpecify the root of your project in this field. It is the path used by all PVCS clients (including the desktop GUI) to access your source. Archive rootThis is the path to the actual archive files on the PVCS server's filesystem. This is required to determine which files were changed from build to build; you can go back and set this later, if you need to, without modifying your builds. Changelog prefix fudgeThis is prefixed to the archive path of a file when determining the changes made to a build, after the "Archive root" (above) has been stripped off. ModuleThis is the path to the directory which will be recursively retrieved from the project root. It must start with a leading "/". So, to tie it all together, let's say the top-level pom.xml for your Maven project is at /2008_10/myProject/pom.xml, with a PVCS project root of //repository/PVCS/October_Release. The archive files are stored on the PVCS server's filesystem at //repository/pvcs/repository/TRUNK, so /2008_10/myProject/pom.xml actually resides at //repository/pvcs/repository/TRUNK/myProject/pom.xml. You would specify:
Advanced config
Since PVCS is too brain-dead to tell you when a file is deleted, it is best to leave this box checked so that all checked-out files will be deleted before a build is started. This ensures that your workspace accurately reflects the current state of the repository. Change LogVersion 1.1 (Jul 21, 2010)
Version 1.0 (Nov 5, 2008)
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Comments (6)
Nov 12, 2008
Darpan Sharma says:
Bira, this is great plugin for PVCS users who are left out when it comes to use ...Bira, this is great plugin for PVCS users who are left out when it comes to use PVCS in continuous integration.
I am trying to use it, but there is no option I found to give credential's to log in to PVCS. Can you specify how to give it?
Thanks.
Darpan Sharma
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Ok, since I am new to PVCS, and a die hard programmer, I did not read PVCS documentation to define user id in environment variable PCLI_ID to be used by pcli. after defining it, it works like a champ.
Mar 06, 2009
patrice demaret says:
Great plugin but how can i define label version or define e new parameter to pcl...Great plugin but how can i define label version or define e new parameter to pcli command ? (Ex : -v)
Thanks
Patrice Demaret (Sorry for my poor english)
Apr 26, 2009
sijoy says:
I am looking for the same. How to specify the files to be pulled from pvcs like ...I am looking for the same. How to specify the files to be pulled from pvcs like the version label or promotion group.
Is it possible to modify the pcli command parameters generated by the plugin
Dec 02, 2009
DB says:
Did you get the solution for this?Did you get the solution for this?
Feb 24, 2010
Tonté Pouncil says:
Bira, this is a great plugin for PVCS users and I am greatful you have created t...Bira, this is a great plugin for PVCS users and I am greatful you have created this plugin.
Can anybody help with the following issue?
I have been successful with using this plugin in the past and up until recently I've been getting the following error:
Feb 24, 2010 11:35:05 AM hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner runPolling
SEVERE: Failed to record SCM polling
java.lang.NullPointerException
at hudson.plugins.pvcs_scm.PvcsScm.getModifications(PvcsScm.java:332)
at hudson.plugins.pvcs_scm.PvcsScm.pollChanges(PvcsScm.java:265)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.pollSCMChanges(AbstractProject.java:1073)
at hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner.runPolling(SCMTrigger.java:319)
at hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner.run(SCMTrigger.java:346)
at hudson.util.SequentialExecutionQueue$QueueEntry.run(SequentialExecutionQueue.java:118)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:885)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:907)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Feb 24, 2010 11:35:05 AM hudson.plugins.pvcs_scm.PvcsScm getModifications
INFO: looking for changes between Thu Jan 28 09:03:25 CST 2010 and Wed Feb 24 11:35:05 CST 2010
I would like to know how to resolve this error message; as Hudson is not able to automatically build my projects when changes are made to PVCS.
Thanks!
Tonté
Oct 03, 2011
velappan ramasamy says:
Can some one help me as I am unable to make use of this plugin. I get a error a...Can some one help me as I am unable to make use of this plugin.
I get a error as command failed and it returns -3
Also the project root cannot be loaded !
I Check the exit code in PVCS doc it says 'A non-PCLI related error or a command specific error'
I checked the console and found that hudson uses pcli command of GET.
So I ran the same pcli command in windows command prompt and could
execute it correctly but with hudson I get the error.
Can some one tell me how to overcome this problem
Thanks
Vels