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gitolite broken: created repositories keep references to /usr/bin for hooks

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25957 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25957: gitolite broken: created repositories keep references
 to /usr/bin for hooks
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 20:07:37 +0200

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On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 01:07:07AM +0100, zimoun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This old bug [1] is still relevant.
> 
> 1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/25957>
> 
> On Sat, 04 Mar 2017 at 13:32, ng0 <contact.ng0 <at> cryptolab.net> wrote:
> > On 17-03-03 22:27:43, ng0 wrote:
> 
> This previous…
> 
> > [user <at> abyayala /gnu/store/jw252kw9blfh1lrrib3yk4fkbj5mvdpm-gitolite-3.6.5/share/gitolite]$ egrep -nr "/usr/"
> > commands/svnserve:9:$svnserve ||= "/usr/bin/svnserve -r /var/svn/ -t --tunnel-user=%u";
> > lib/Gitolite/Test/Tsh.pm:42:# path when cwd is [...] at /usr/share/perl5/File/Temp.pm line 902".
> > lib/Gitolite/Hooks/PostUpdate.pm:62:#!/usr/bin/perl
> > lib/Gitolite/Hooks/Update.pm:158:#!/usr/bin/perl
> > lib/Gitolite/Cache.pm:127:    open( REDIS, "|-", "/usr/sbin/redis-server", "-" ) or die "start redis server fail
> > ed: $!";
> 
> …is now…
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> share/gitolite/lib/Gitolite/Test/Tsh.pm:42:# path when cwd is [...] at /usr/share/perl5/File/Temp.pm line 902".
> share/gitolite/lib/Gitolite/Cache.pm:127:    open( REDIS, "|-", "/usr/sbin/redis-server", "-" ) or die "start redis server failed: $!";
> share/gitolite/commands/svnserve:9:$svnserve ||= "/usr/bin/svnserve -r /var/svn/ -t --tunnel-user=%u";
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> …but…
> 
> > The parts I want to fix as my immediately affect every user, are in
> > the directory "lib/Gitolite/Hooks/", I have no idea about redis, but
> > I think there should be a reference to /gnu/store/ reddis and not
> > "/usr/sbin/redis-server". Different problem, related bug.. This can be
> > solved in a commit after this bug.
> 
> …the package redis is not a dependency of gitolite.  Therefore, the
> question is: is our Gitolite package working with Redis?  Even using the
> /usr/bin one?  Idem for SVN.
> 
> Otherwise, I am favor to remove the 2 “problematic” references.   WDYT?

Or change it to search the $PATH for the binary, so it would just be
'redis-server' or 'svnserve'

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