Questions about Sourceware

Questions about Sourceware

[Marian Csontos]

Hi Frank, and overseers, I am still trying to find my way around on 
sourceware to proceed with ikiwiki, and I have few questions, about your 
preferred ways.

For each ikiwiki there will be needed:

2 public accessible group writable git repos - setup and content, 
somewhere under $poject-home, linked from /git,...

How to create them?
- Ask overseers to have them created for us.
- Or create them and have them linked from /git, /git/SOURCEWARE-GITWEB,...;
   ...and optionally added to gitweb's project_list file?
     - Is everything supposed to be there?
   ...and setfacl-ed...?

and a group writable setup and working directories.

These will be checked out from the above git repos. As generated 
content, should this be under /sourceware/projects or is
there another preferred location?


And few more related questions:

Shall I send you script(s) for */sourceware/infra/bin/*?

...and if so, as ikiwiki's auto.setup is interactive, is command
line preferred, or is interactive accepted as well?

I already tweaked it a bit to ask more questions, and if we agree on 
some standard locations, I can make it to ask less or none if possible.


May I ask, why sourceware does not use gitweb's automatic repo search?
Would it mean less work for you, if groups had group writable
directory under /git, /sourceware/www/sourceware/htdocs/git/,...?

Also structure under /git is mostly flat, is that strongly preferred 
way? E.g. it does make scripts simpler - no need to handle directories 
when linking.

Exception to the rule: cygwin-apps/.

Would group writable directories with repo search be useful and save you 
some work?

-- Martian

Re: Questions about Sourceware

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

> [...]
> For each ikiwiki there will be needed:
> 2 public accessible group writable git repos - setup and content, somewhere
> under $poject-home, linked from /git,...
> 
> How to create them?
> - Ask overseers to have them created for us.

^^ this.

> These will be checked out from the above git repos. As generated
> content, should this be under /sourceware/projects or is there
> another preferred location?

There will be a project home directory made for you.


> And few more related questions:
> Shall I send you script(s) for */sourceware/infra/bin/*?
> ...and if so, as ikiwiki's auto.setup is interactive, is command
> line preferred, or is interactive accepted as well?

Do these need to go into infra/bin?  If they are for ikiwiki only,
you could put them under some /bin subtree of your own. 

> [...]
> May I ask, why sourceware does not use gitweb's automatic repo search?

Not sure; maybe that wasn't available in the prehistoric versions when
we first set them up.

> Would it mean less work for you, if groups had group writable
> directory under /git, /sourceware/www/sourceware/htdocs/git/,...?
> [...]

It depends on how many such repos you will end up needing.  If it's
just the one or two, don't worry about it; our symlink widgetry will
do.  If it's a slew, then something like the cygwin-apps/ structure
will be needed.


- FChE

Re: Questions about Sourceware

[Marian Csontos]

On 03/09/2017 04:55 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
>
>> [...]
>> For each ikiwiki there will be needed:
>> 2 public accessible group writable git repos - setup and content, somewhere
>> under $poject-home, linked from /git,...
>>
>> How to create them?
>> - Ask overseers to have them created for us.
>
> ^^ this.
>
>> These will be checked out from the above git repos. As generated
>> content, should this be under /sourceware/projects or is there
>> another preferred location?
>
> There will be a project home directory made for you.

Is it /sourceware/projects/lvm2-home ?

Or more likely /sourceware/something-else/lvm2, which would make e.g. 
rsync bit easier ?

Whatever, I can now start with scripting, and will update as we agree on 
the final locations. Will push to a git repo too, so if there is anyone 
setting another wiki, or cloning and contributing, it could be reused.

Thanks!

-- Martian

>
>
>> And few more related questions:
>> Shall I send you script(s) for */sourceware/infra/bin/*?
>> ...and if so, as ikiwiki's auto.setup is interactive, is command
>> line preferred, or is interactive accepted as well?
>
> Do these need to go into infra/bin?  If they are for ikiwiki only,
> you could put them under some /bin subtree of your own.
>
>> [...]
>> May I ask, why sourceware does not use gitweb's automatic repo search?
>
> Not sure; maybe that wasn't available in the prehistoric versions when
> we first set them up.
>
>> Would it mean less work for you, if groups had group writable
>> directory under /git, /sourceware/www/sourceware/htdocs/git/,...?
>> [...]
>
> It depends on how many such repos you will end up needing.  If it's
> just the one or two, don't worry about it; our symlink widgetry will
> do.  If it's a slew, then something like the cygwin-apps/ structure
> will be needed.
>
>
> - FChE
>