On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:44:30AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 12:49:08PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
> >> Maybe that suggests a way to make a smooth transition:
> >>
> >> 1. preinst installs symlinks /var/lib/git/* -> /var/cache/git/*
> >> 2. updated conffiles refer to /var/lib/git
> >> 3. NEWS.Debian helps admins move the data to /var/lib/git
> >
> > That could work, indeed.
>
> Ok, let's do that. A more complete automatic migration can always be
> built on top of this later if someone writes the scripts for it.
OK. The patch for steps 2 and 3 looks good; just step 1 to go.
> > Though I would recommend /srv/git instead of /var/lib/git, as that is
> > the directory recommended by the git documentation.
>
> The FHS says
> [...]
>
> which makes /srv/git a reasonable example for the documentation but
> not something I can set up in the packaging. Users can always switch
> to that on their on systems, though.
Good point.
> Here's a rough patch for step 1. Step 2 would be to make preinst
> automatically create the appropriate symlinks to save most sysadmins
> from the trouble of having to do anything to keep their system
> working. Completely untested.
Again, looks good at a read-through, but I haven't tried running it.
The postinst for git-daemon{-run,-sysvinit} should restart or reload
the daemon to account for the new configuration.
Also, the suggestion to rmdir /var/lib/git will not work if it is
filled with symlinks...
Julian
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