{"thread":{"id":"19187","subject":"gitosis and symlink requirement","startedAt":"2009-05-05T12:50:30Z","lastAt":"2009-05-05T12:50:30Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Ringo De Smet"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"113035","messageId":"C4130655-CC74-498B-AF99-045F79D367B9@gmail.com","threadId":"19187","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"gitosis and symlink requirement","fromName":"Ringo De Smet","fromEmail":"ringo.desmet@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-05-05T12:50:30Z","receivedAt":"2009-05-05T12:50:30Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"ringo.desmet@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hello Tommi,\n\nI just tried to setup gitosis on a VirtualBox virtual machine with  \nguest OS Ubuntu 8.10 Intredid Server (amd64). However, the  \ninstallation fails with the following stacktrace:\n\nInitialized empty Git repository in /home/git/repositories/gitosis- \nadmin.git/\nReinitialized existing Git repository in /home/git/repositories/ \ngitosis-admin.git/\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n   File \"/usr/bin/gitosis-init\", line 8, in <module>\n     load_entry_point('gitosis==0.2', 'console_scripts', 'gitosis- \ninit')()\n   File \"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.5.egg/ \ngitosis/app.py\", line 24, in run\n     return app.main()\n   File \"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.5.egg/ \ngitosis/app.py\", line 38, in main\n     self.handle_args(parser, cfg, options, args)\n   File \"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.5.egg/ \ngitosis/init.py\", line 142, in handle_args\n     symlink_config(git_dir=admin_repository)\n   File \"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.5.egg/ \ngitosis/init.py\", line 64, in symlink_config\n     tmp,\nOSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted\n\nI found the rootcause: I run /home/git on a VirtualBox Shared Folder.  \nI use this setup since all my Shared Folders of the host OS are in a  \nbackup plan. The git home folder is mounted using the vboxsf file  \nsystem type, which does not support symbolic links:\n\nhttp://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/818\n\nIs there a possibility of updating gitosis so the symlinking is not  \nneeded?\n\nRingo De Smet\n"}]}