On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:34:01AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > At present, gitweb expects to find the repositories in /var/cache/git > > by default. However, as the FHS specifies: > > Sorry for the slow reply. I want to fix this for jessie, but I hadn't > come up with a smooth way to move existing repositories from > /var/cache/git without teaching gitweb to look in more than one place. > > Do you have ideas for how to do that?
Yes, I realise that's a problem. One thing to remember is that changing the defaults in conffiles won't automatically modify any existing configurations unless the sysadmin chooses to overwrite the existing conffile. Also, the git-doc documentation all refers to /srv/git rather than /var/cache/git, except for the README.Debian files themselves. So a possible resolution might be the following: (1) Change /etc/gitweb.conf and /etc/sv/git-daemon/run to point to the new locations. This will only affect new installations. (2) In /usr/share/doc, change git/README.Debian to refer to the new location (8 occurrences) and add an explanation that older versions of the package used to use /var/cache/git, though this is no longer recommended. Likewise, there are references in git-daemon-run/README.Debian and gitweb/README.Debian, which should be updated in a similar way. There may be other files in packages I haven't installed. (3) Add a comment in the git/NEWS.Debian file, explaining that the default location has moved; existing installations will not be affected, but to convert them to the new layout, see the instructions in README.Debian. These should say to simply move everything from /var/cache/git to /srv/git (taking care if there is a pre-existing /srv/git), and to update the files /etc/gitweb.conf, /etc/sv/git-daemon/run and any relevant webserver configuration such as Apache which is currently looking in /var/cache/git. To restart the git-daemon service, use "sv restart git-daemon"; to restart apache, use "service apache2 reload". How does that all sound? > In the meantime, the usual way to use /var/cache/git is to put > symlinks there, though I realize that's not very satisfying. Quite! But again, the symlinks won't be recreated automatically, so it's still not ideal. Thanks for your work on the package! Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
