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Date:      Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:50:27 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        Douglas Thrift <douglas@douglasthrift.net>
Cc:        Tim Bishop <tim@bishnet.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Porting gitolite
Message-ID:  <CADLo83-KkwTRHmEn990kvvn3XPObGJAapeSoDoNtPGfF6M4aXg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E18EAD2.1030700@douglasthrift.net>
References:  <20110709112937.GA4859@carrick-users.bishnet.net> <4E18EAD2.1030700@douglasthrift.net>

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On 10 Jul 2011 01:21, "Douglas Thrift" <douglas@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



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