[New Port] Working on Gitlab - Calling for Help and Ideas

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 23/04/2015 5:30 PM, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
> Hello Chris,
> 
>> I'm pretty busy ATM. But if you haven't already, *do* read:
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
>> it addresses the questions you've asked fairly well.
>> As to rc(5), and config related files in ${PREFIX}/etc
>> there are a good number of working examples in net-mgmt, dns,
>> sysutils, and perhaps www, to draw from.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
> 
> I already know the porters handbook, but i appreciate the pointer. Every
> time i read it, i become more familiar with it :)
> 
> I believe my general purpose question, was not such a good idea. More
> specific i have a bunch of questions. The installations guide
> (https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/blob/master/install/freebsd/freebsd-10.md)
> defines a number of packages to install. But i don't believe this should
> be dependencies.
> 
> With the following packages i have problems to figure out if they are
> really needed:
> - sudo
> - bash
> - icu
> - cmake
> - pkgconf
> - logrotate
> - postgresql94-server
> - postfix
> - nginx
> 
> I don't think that postgresql and nginx should be either a run or a
> build-dependency. The admin of the server should decide, which webserver
> he wants to run.
> While postgresql seems mandatory, it's not clear which version is
> needed. At the moment i used USES= pgsql.
> 
> Here a response by a user would save much time. Otherwise i just have to
> try every combination. I've already set up a jail for this - but maybe
> somebody has an idea.
> 
> Next question: should "gem install bundler --no-ri --no-rdoc" be done by
> port-installation? Or not? Or with an rc-script for initialization?
> 
> The port requires an git-user and some directory under /home/git. Should
> the port add this?
> 
> How to handle database initialization? rc-script or manual?
> 
> So - any advice or experience is helpful.
> 

Hi Torsten,

I know that a couple of people have looked at creating a gitlab port in the past, and possibly in progress. It might worthwhile catching up with them ..

Try Johannes (xmj) who's also on IRC (freenode/efnet), who should be able to at least point you in the right direction and catch you up on his experience with Gitlab.

Thanks for getting involved!

Koobs