chown -R gccadmin /www/gcc/htdocs-preformatted

chown -R gccadmin /www/gcc/htdocs-preformatted

[Gerald Pfeifer]

Martin reported that his latest change to 
  https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html
did not make it to the actual gcc.gnu.org site after pushing to git.

I dug into it and found that /www/gcc/htdocs-preformatted is behind 
git head. `git pull` gets stuck (even as user gccadmin).

  $ git checkout
  Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 3 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.
  (use "git pull" to update your local branch)

  $ git pull
  Updating 68c7552f..415fcf49
  error: unable to unlink old 'htdocs/onlinedocs/8.4.0/index.html': Permission denied


Ask: Can you please run
  chown -R gccadmin /www/gcc/htdocs-preformatted
as root?

And then see whether 
  cd /www/gcc/htdocs-preformatted ; git pull
(as user gccadmin) succeeds?

Thank you,
Gerald


Q: Why is this happening only now, with this specific update? 
   Why did Martin and others not run into any problems the last years? 

A: My commit 91315916d177e42c5888c5d30491ab6d6041b1a4 four days ago 
   touched every single *.html file in the tree, which is a first in 
   four years, and a first since wwwdocs moved to git three years ago.
 
   Interestingly newer directories under onlinedocs/ don't run into this
   since they are drwxrwsr-x. instead of drwxr-sr-x. like 8.4.0 is.

Re: chown -R gccadmin /www/gcc/htdocs-preformatted

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

> Martin reported that his latest change to 
>   https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html
> did not make it to the actual gcc.gnu.org site after pushing to git.
> [...]
>   Updating 68c7552f..415fcf49
>   error: unable to unlink old 'htdocs/onlinedocs/8.4.0/index.html': Permission denied

This is fixed via chown and a few strategic chmod g+ws's.

> [...]
> And then see whether 
>   cd /www/gcc/htdocs-preformatted ; git pull
> (as user gccadmin) succeeds?

No, because git pull fails with a different error (extra commits on
local master vs. origin/master branch).  I think you are able to
clean that up without more fuss.

By the way, other projects use git-backed htdocs here with less
machinery, where in a commit to the FOO-htdocs git repo automatically
checks things out to a htdocs directory, sans manual/gccadmin
intervention.  Consider.

- FChE