[p4] unix copying a depot

[Listman]

On May 14, 2008, at 5:55 AM- May 14, 2008, Robert Cowham wrote:

>> Can I unix copy an existing depot to a new location and start
>> a new p4d daemon on a different port and start working with
>> it? Are there any absolute path issues I might run into?
>
> If your depots use the default Map syntax, eg
>
> Map:	depot/...
>
> Then this is relative to P4ROOT dir and you will have no problems.
>
> It is possible to make this an absolute path (eg in Unix or Windows  
> syntax),
> in which case you would perhaps need to edit it.
>
>> I just want to run some tests on this depot copy, can i just
>> use the free 2 license version of p4 to do my trials? There
>> are 12 clients in the original depot that i copied. Is it
>> possible to just delete those
>> 12 and add a couple of new ones to play with?
>
> Yes that's not a problem to use unlicensed.
>
> It is usally not difficult to remove the client lines from the  
> checkpoint
> (look for db.domain entries) before restoring.
>

but i wasn't planning on restoring from a checkpoint..

as i mentioned, i'd like to do the following:

 > cp -r my_depot my_depot_copy
 > cd my_depot_copy
 > set P4PORT 49494
 > p4d -p localhost 49494

and then create a new working copy

 > cd ..
 > mkdir work2
 > cd work2
 > p4 client my_new_client (make the necessary changes to the client)
 > p4 typemap (add the necessary typemap lines)
 > p4 sync

should this work?

how do i delete the existing clients in my_depot_copy so that i can  
use the free 2 license server to run some test?

thx again.