list elements by activity

Question

Hello, I'm working on automated builds and need to be able to list elements that were worked on under particular activities. I'm new to ClearCase so I apologise for naiivety ...

My downstream build process works fine and I now need to populate a 'pre-build' area by identifying the (checked-in) files associated with one or more activities, labels etc (in fact any combination the change/release manager wants) by listing the candidate files for a build and then copying them from the M: drive (Windows). We are using CC 7.1 with a back end on AIX and Win XP Pro desktops. We'll use ccperl to drive the find+copy process.

I have battled with 'find' to no avail - can someone lend a hand? All help gratefully received.

Cliff.

Answer 1

• For "label" (I suppose "UCM Baselines" since you mention "activities", which exist only with UCM):

The easiest way would be to configure a config spec for a dynamic view:

element * MY_BASELINE

in order to quickly access the right files.

• For activities, you could (if there is not too much files involved), list the exact versions of each activities you want:

  cleartool descr -l activity:my_actity@\pvob

and parse the result to grep/awk only what you need.
You need only to do this within a dynamic view (any dynamic view): the activity will contain a list of extended pathnames, meaning you will be able to access and copy each version through that myFile@@/main/myBranch/myVersion path.