Porting gitolite

[Chris Rees]

On 10 Jul 2011 01:21, "Douglas Thrift" <douglas at douglasthrift.net> wrote:
>
> On 7/9/2011 4:29 AM, Tim Bishop wrote:
> > Hi Douglas,
> >
> > I was thinking about porting gitolite to the FreeBSD ports tree and I
> > notice you've done gitosis. For gitosis you have a specific user:
> >
> > % grep git /usr/ports/{UIDs,GIDs}
> > /usr/ports/UIDs:git:*:211:211::0:0:gitosis user:/usr/local/git:/bin/sh
> > /usr/ports/GIDs:git:*:211:
> >
> > It seems to make sense to me to use the git user for gitolite as well
> > (for the same reasons you used it for gitosis). So I thought I'd ping
> > you to see if you had any thoughts or concerns about that?
> >
> > The only thing that might need changing is the gecos field in the UIDs
> > file, maybe to something like "gitosis/gitolite user".
> >
> > Thanks for reading,
> >
> > Tim.
> >
>
> Hello Tim,
>
> I don't think there should be any problem, but I've CCed the FreeBSD
> ports mailing list to see if anyone else has any thoughts on the matter.

Loads of ports share usernames anyway, shouldn't be a problem.

Personally I wouldn't bother changing the gecos though.

Chris