Perl Rover v3 pass environment variable to in the Rulesets

Question

I am using perl Rover module version 3 to login to the Linux/Unix server and run the script. In the ruleset if I add the full path name it copies the script to the remote server, not able to substitute the environment variable.

eg. This works:

 copy:{
       put_file "/home/u1/find.sh" "/tmp/"
        }; 

This didn't work:

copy:{
   put_file "$HOME/find.sh" "/tmp/"
    };

used $ENV{'HOME'}, this also didn't work.

How can I pass the environment variable?

Rover module document. http://rover.sourceforge.net/QuickStart/Rover-QuickStart-3.html#ss3.2

http://rover.sourceforge.net/

Answer 1

After reviewing the source code for rover, which I never used, I determined it was not possible from the existing code.

I created a new extension for you, that has that functionality, it supports the ~ and ${HOME} syntax, (which are bash extensions and not part of the OS directly, that is why perl does not support them).

code is here: https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/perl-rover/commit/2c78aefb97e819956bb665b04056763f8df1b242

I have had a hard time testing it because I never used rover before, and rover does not seem to support scp.(I read it is supported,but could not test it yet.) Anyway, let me know if you like it. I will put more work into it if reasonably requested.

Update

Here is my example ruleset :

example ruleset

[rulesets]
test:
{
       put_file_from_home put_file "~/find2.sh" "/tmp/"
       put_file_from_home put_file "${HOME}/find3.sh" "/tmp/"

},  ;

example output

Here is the example output, I cannot get rover to work. See the test case below.

Test output

perl -I lib  t/example2.t
Local was ~/find2.sh and home was /home/mdupont at lib/Rover/CoreExtension.pm line 19.
Local now /home/mdupont/find2.sh at lib/Rover/CoreExtension.pm line 22.
Local was ${HOME}/find3.sh and home was /home/mdupont at lib/Rover/CoreExtension.pm line 19.
Local now /home/mdupont/find3.sh at lib//Rover/CoreExtension.pm line 22.

new config option for the new sshport option

[hosts]
someexample:{
    os linux
    username myusername
    description 'myhost'
    sshport 12345
    ftp_method_used sftp
 };

update2

Dont use quotes around the name, use a comma between the args,

To [email protected]:h4ck3rm1k3/perl-rover.git 2207417..7637741 CoreExtension -> CoreExtension

[rulesets]

test: {     put_file_from_home ~/find2.sh,/tmp/ }, ;


[hosts]

localhost:{
    os linux
    username mdupont
    description 'localhost'
    ftp_methods sftp 
    ftp_method_used sftp  };

mike