On Sat, 2015-06-27 at 13:36 +0200, David Bremner wrote: > The latest upload to experimental (3.6.3-2) won't ask for GITDIR on > reconfiguration (assuming configuration completed once). Although I > don't claim this is a fix for the bug you reported, I think it does > convert it into a feature request. A way forward might be to use a > symlink for the "repositories" directory as supported by upstream, > rather than changing the home directory of the gitolite user.
Hi David, This bug is old for some time and there is no defined resolution as such. I just want to add some tidbit info that I realized today after spending 2 hours. As is mentioned, it makes sense to only relocate the repositories folder, and NOT the $HOME home folder. For whatever be the reason, gitolite3 expects its $HOME path to be executable. Whereas typical non-root file systems on Linux are treated as data partitions and their mount options usually are set to not allow execution, suid and other stuff. This just created me 2 hours of time waste. But I'm still wondering what triggers this and why upstream chose something such (and maybe inferior) because from the packaging point of view, everything has been structured proper. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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