Porting gitolite

[Douglas Thrift]

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.
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Douglas William Thrift
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