[mapserver-users] Listing mapfile dependencies

[Fawcett, David (MNIT)]

You guys are running Mapserver on a Pi?  I want to hear more about that!



From: mapserver-users [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of James Klassen
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 2:08 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapserver-users] Listing mapfile dependencies

Is there a good way to list all of the dependencies (files, URLs, database connections, etc.) of a mapfile?

I am trying to automate synchronizing mapfiles from our main server to Raspberry Pis to be used as mini-servers in the field.  To save space, I'd like to automatically get a list of all the files a particular mapfile depends on and only copy those instead of copying full directory trees which have many (large) unnecessary files.
It seems like a complete solution might be very complex undertaking given the number of places resources can be referenced from: TILEINDEX, GDAL/OGR connections (vrt), TEMPLATES, data generated URLs formed inside of TEMPLATES, database connections, files that are really multiple files (.shp, .wld), etc.

I can write something that deals with the subset of MapServer that we use, but was wondering if anyone had started something similar.
Jim Klassen
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