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+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+# Copyright (C) 2014, all contributors (git clone git://80x24.org/public-inbox)
+# License: AGPLv3 or later (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt)
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+my $usage = "public-inbox-init NAME GIT_DIR HTTP_URL ADDRESS [ADDRESS..]";
+use PublicInbox::Config;
+use File::Temp qw/tempfile/;
+use File::Basename qw/dirname/;
+use File::Path qw/mkpath/;
+use File::Path::Expand qw/expand_filename/;
+
+sub x { system(@_) and die join(' ', @_). " failed: $?\n" }
+sub usage { print STDERR "Usage: $usage\n"; exit 1 }
+
+my $name = shift @ARGV or usage();
+my $git_dir = shift @ARGV or usage();
+my $http_url = shift @ARGV or usage();
+my (@address) = @ARGV;
+@address or usage();
+
+my $pi_config = PublicInbox::Config->default_file;
+my $dir = dirname($pi_config);
+mkpath($dir); # will croak on fatal errors
+my ($fh, $filename) = tempfile('pi-init-XXXXXXXX', DIR => $dir);
+if (-e $pi_config) {
+ open(my $oh, '<', $pi_config) or die "unable to read $pi_config: $!\n";
+ local $/;
+ my $old = <$oh>;
+ print $fh $old or die "failed to write: $!\n";
+ close $oh or die "failed to close $pi_config: $!\n";
+
+ # yes, this conflict checking is racy if multiple instances of this
+ # script are run by the same $PI_DIR
+ my $cfg = PublicInbox::Config->new;
+ my $conflict;
+ foreach my $addr (@address) {
+ my $found = $cfg->lookup($addr);
+ if ($found && ($found->{listname} ne $name)) {
+ print STDERR
+ "`$addr' already defined for ",
+ "`$found->{listname}',\n",
+ "does not match intend `$name'\n";
+ $conflict = 1;
+ }
+ }
+
+ exit(1) if $conflict;
+}
+close $fh or die "failed to close $filename: $!\n";
+
+my $pfx = "publicinbox.$name";
+my @x = (qw/git config/, "--file=$filename");
+$git_dir = expand_filename($git_dir);
+x(qw(git init -q --bare), $git_dir);
+foreach my $addr (@address) {
+ x(@x, "$pfx.address", $addr);
+}
+x(@x, "$pfx.url", $http_url);
+x(@x, "$pfx.mainrepo", $git_dir);
+
+rename $filename, $pi_config or
+ die "failed to rename `$filename' to `$pi_config': $!\n";
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+# Copyright (C) 2014, all contributors
+# License: AGPLv3 or later (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt)
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Test::More;
+use PublicInbox::Config;
+use File::Temp qw/tempdir/;
+my $tmpdir = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1);
+use constant pi_init => 'blib/script/public-inbox-init';
+
+{
+ local $ENV{PI_DIR} = "$tmpdir/.public-inbox/";
+ my $cfgfile = "$ENV{PI_DIR}/config";
+ my @cmd = (pi_init, 'blist', "$tmpdir/blist",
+ qw(http://example.com/blist blist@example.com));
+ is(system(@cmd), 0, join(' ', @cmd). ' failed');
+
+ ok(-e $cfgfile, "config exists, now");
+ is(system(@cmd), 0, join(' ', @cmd). ' failed (idempotent)');
+}
+
+done_testing();