From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J.H." Subject: Re: problems installing git docs and gitweb on centos 5.5 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:27:40 -0700 Message-ID: <4CA41FCC.8050704@kernel.org> References: <4CA3EFE6.2010306@brainstorm-digital.com> <20100930024059.GA2373@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dennis Huynh , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 30 08:06:30 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1CHj-00020d-Tg for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:06:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753666Ab0I3GGW (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:06:22 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:53868 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753533Ab0I3GGV (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:06:21 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2318 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:06:21 EDT Received: from voot-cruiser.eaglescrag.net (c-71-202-185-40.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.202.185.40]) (authenticated bits=0) by shards.monkeyblade.net (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o8U5Re2F007465 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:27:40 -0700 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at shards.monkeyblade.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100907 Fedora/3.0.7-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.7 In-Reply-To: <20100930024059.GA2373@burratino> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 09/29/2010 07:40 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > (-cc: security@centos) > > Hi Dennis, > > Dennis Huynh wrote: > >> Am I the only one having issues installing git docs? > > Here's my advice: > > 1. Breathe in, breathe out. > 2. Look at the INSTALL file, section beginning "To build and install > documentation suite". Among other things, it describes how to > retrieve pre-formatted documentation from the git.git repository > itself. So you can try: > > git clone git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git For the love of monkeys do *NOT* point people at specific git machines like that. Use git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git using a specific machine causes a giant amount of headaches for me and completely ruins any attempt at load balancing I might be able to accomplish. Couple that with the fact it will steer people to the wrong server if they aren't in North America, it's just not a good idea. Period. > cd git > make quick-install-doc > > after installing git, which should be relatively painless. > 3. Look at gitweb/INSTALL. The moment something seems unclear, note > that, so we can come up with a patch to make it clearer for the > next person. As an overall note, git and gitweb, including my caching version of gitweb are available in Fedora EPEL as rpm packages. These are official packages for Redhat / CentOS / Distro based on those things. You shouldn't need to compile your own really. Unless you need the latest and greatest I would try those. If you really need the latest you might be better off grabbing the latest .src.rpm from here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/RPMS/SRPMS/ http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/RPMS/SRPMS/git-1.7.3.1-1.fc11.src.rpm and doing an rpmbuild --rebuild git-1.7.3.1-1.fc11.src.rpm on it and installing the rpm that it builds. I'm not saying doing it completely from source is bad, but deviating from what your distro uses / provides can cause other headaches and maintenance issues down the line. Bonus to going the RPM rebuild route is that it will tell you what your missing to do the rebuild with. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley