Re: cygwin-packages gitweb to cgit rewrite

[Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>]

Hi Corinna,

On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 10:27:32AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen via Overseers wrote:
> On Feb  8 00:38, Mark Wielaard via Overseers wrote:
> > For now I redirected https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/ and
> > https://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/ to
> > https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/
> > 
> > This is just for the overview pages. All other subpages (and git
> > repos) are still accessible.
> > 
> > Rewriting those using Arsen's script [*] is a little tricky, unless we
> > rewrite all cygwin/sourceware/gcc gitweb urls.
> > 
> > Please yell and scream if I broke something.
> 
> Didn't we want to move sware to cgit anyway?  I think this is a good
> move, given how much faster cgit works.  The Cygwin homepage points
> to the cgit web pages for quite some time already, at least as far
> as the newlib-cygwin repo is concerned.

Yes, and we did "move", we now have https://cygwin.com/cgit
https://sourceware.org/cgit https://gcc.gnu.org/cgit and
https://git.dwarfstd.org

But the old links and https git transport backend still need to keep
working on the old gitweb /git/ locations.

I would love to "overlay" Arsen's script to rewrite all the old gitweb
URLs to cgit, but I haven't found a good way to do that in stages (so
e.g. just for cygwin-packages first). Because we multiplex our gitweb
calls through the /etc/gitweb.conf setup. We need to find a way to do
it through /etc/httpd/conf.d/gitweb.conf

Cheers,

Mark