The last week, I managed to switch over to gitolite. It works like charm without any evil hack, does what it should do, but I don’t think the transfer is as easy as stated. The easiest way was to
- move all git-repos /somewhere/
- completely uninstall gitosis
- install and configure gitolite as stated on their homepage using glsetup
- move the repos back into gitolite’s “$GIT”-directory
Some months ago, a friend of mine showed me gitosis, a collection of scripts that provide an easy-to-configure git-server. By that time, there was an almost ready-to-use-.deb in debian/squeeze. But with migration to Wheezy, gitosis broke.
The exact traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gitosis-serve", line 9, in <module>
load_entry_point('gitosis==0.2', 'console_scripts', 'gitosis-serve')()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 337, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 330, in get_distribution
if isinstance(dist,Requirement): dist = get_provider(dist)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 209, in get_provider
return working_set.find(moduleOrReq) or require(str(moduleOrReq))[0]
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 686, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 584, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: gitosis==0.2
Several homepages proposed symlinking back from python2.x to python2.5, which SHOULD work. But would you like to switch to a deprecated version of python? I wouldn’t. (Furthermore, python2.5 isn’t in the wheezy-repos, either)
So here’s the REAL problem with gitosis: During the upgrade to Wheezy, some paths within the system changed, especially those for including. The “*.egg”-file gitosis provides (and gitosis-serve requires, loaded through pkg_resources.load_entry_point !) lies within ‘/usr/share/pyshared’, which is missing in python2.7’s ‘path’-variable (just try: call ‘sys.path’ in interactive python-session after having imported the ‘sys’-package)
For me, gitosis worked again after changing the file ‘/usr/bin/gitosis-serve’ in the following way:
--- /usr/bin/gitosis-serve-old 2013-08-12 11:27:15.126399705 +0200
+++ /usr/bin/gitosis-serve 2013-08-12 11:14:40.237563062 +0200
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'gitosis==0.2','console_scripts','gitosis-serve'
__requires__ = 'gitosis==0.2'
import sys
+sys.path.append('/usr/share/pyshared/')
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
if __name__ == '__main__':
