This was my experience setting up Gitorious on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server
http://www.bluequartz.net/projects/ElectronicImaging/SCMService/html/gitorioussetup.html
Mike Jackson
On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Hedge Hog wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Will Daniels
<daniels.w...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hello again :)
Just spotted this thread has come back to life. Sorry I kind of
gave up
on it...just too many problems. First off is gem, which is
completely at
odds with apt and gitorious will need _all_ references to gem
eliminated
by the packaging. That much I accepted, though I didn't know about
the
gem issue initially. So I started to package up the needed gems
individually, joined the ruby-extras team at Debian and got my
first gem
package approved there (oauth I think).
But then I went on to rdiscount...I thought it all looked OK
license-wise so I went and did all the packaging for that then
noticed
it was using the 4-clause BSD license. So I contacted the author
(David
somebody) and asked if he would consider updating the license to the
newer 3-clause BSD that is compatible with DFSG. But he basically
said
he was already well aware of the issue with distro packaging but
didn't
want to change it and he is using the old 4-clause license
deliberately.
Obviously BlueCloth is an alternative there, but I think I ended up
finding a few other problems and by the end of it I was changing
quite a
lot of the gitorious code to move things for FHS compliance,
deprecate
gem, change to Bluecloth and whatever else that it became quite a big
job and I soon ran out of time.
Sounds like this was a little painful.
Gitorious is on my to do list, so I have not experienced an install.
Nonetheless.
If there are so many moving parts it might be easier to have a Chef
and Puppet cookbook?
In fact this was the plan of attack I had in mind when I got to trying
Gitorious.
The main reason was that a chef cookbook would allow for different
configuration/usage scenarios to be specified, e.g. intall from repo's
head vs a tar ball.
Has anyone tried setting up a chef/puppet cookbook?
Best wishes
It's not that it's too impossible really, but the project at work I
wanted to use it for went down the tube and then I got ill for a
while
and I just never found the motivation again to pick it up afterward.
Though I'm still happy to help out a bit if somebody else wants to
take
up the gauntlet.
It was always my intention to host it in a PPA on launchpad, there's
really only one line in the changelog that you need to update to
put a
Debian package in a PPA for Ubuntu. But since launchpad is only
integrated with Bazaar I don't see any value in hosting any other
part
of it there - it's just as easy to work with git using git-
buildpackage
etc. then dput *changes to upload the result to a PPA for the build.
It would obviously be nice to get the package into Debian proper,
which
would then go automatically into Ubuntu repos on the next sync, but I
might have been too optimistic to try to get everything properly
compliant with Debian from the start. Using a PPA would at least give
some flexibility to have it less-than-perfect but usable wrt FHS and
DFSG until everything is in place to send it for review.
I'll have a look and see where I got to with it...might help to start
somebody else off.
Cheers!
Will
On 13/07/10 19:43, Benjamin Podszun wrote:
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen
<marius.mathie...@gmail.com> wrote:
2010/7/13 Jörg W Mittag <joergwmittag+r...@googlemail.com>
That's why I'd love to have Debian package. And I think the
redMine
package would be a good starting point, both a) because it is
non-trivial Rails app and also b) because it is the only Rails app
with a Debian package anyway :-)
Hadn't seen the Redmine package; that is a very good example
indeed!
Care to take a shot at it? I'm willing to help!
Isn't BlueCloth API compatible with RDiscount? I mean, it's dog-
slow,
but for a first approximation it should be enough. And BlueCloth
is
already available as `libbluecloth-ruby`.
We extend RDiscount a little (see lib/markup_renderer.rb), but
creating
something that uses Bluecloth instead shouldn't be a biggie.
I'd love to see this going somewhere...
I'm really completely clueless regarding Debian packaging so far,
but
I did set up a couple of Gitorious instances already and would
love to
contribute (help with testing, qa or with packaging itself, if
someone
can help me to get started).
Not to turn this into a religions thing, but maybe this would be
even
more easy as a PPA for ubuntu (so far the most common deployment
scenario I've seen here on this list or mentioned in installation
tutorials), since that allows instant distribution to interested
parties, building for multiple distribution versions etc..
On the other hand, if the Debian base is favored: Fine for me, I'm
interested.
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