post-update path changed during karmic upgrade makes the hook a stale link
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gitosis (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gitosis
I started using gitosis in jaunty, and in
~gitosis/
which is a fundamental directory (since all gitosis activity is concentrated in what it does when you push a change in configuration), I (automatically) had the link
post-update -> /usr/share/
. Unfortunately, when upgrading to karmic (gitosis 0.2+20080825-15), that file moved to
/usr/share/
so the link became stale. This is _very_ unfortunate, since when post-update hook is not run, one can do _nothing_ (in particular I was not able do add a new user), not even enable debug! Moreover, the push of the gitosis-admin repository gives no error, so it is not easy to understand where the problem is (all you get can be for instance a clueless "ERROR:
As far as I can imagine, this will affect _all_ gitosis users upgrading (the first time they happen to make some configuration change). The only way I can interpret the fact that this bug has not been filed is that either gitosis is really not much used, or that not many servers have been upgraded to karmic.
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| summary: |
- gitosis path changed in karmic upgrade: post-update hook stale link + post-update path changed during karmic upgrade makes the hook a stale + link |
| Ron Vaughn (rjv) wrote | #1 |
| agent 8131 (agent-8131) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in gitosis (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Michel Bretschneider (michelbretschneider) wrote | #3 |
I hit this EXACT same bug tonight. And I just happened to have upgraded to 9.10, and then was trying to get a new mysysgit (windows client) to run. So I spent hours thinking it was windows, not that the symlink was bad. By manually fixing the symlink as described, the gitosis.conf file would properly update itself, and the issue went away.