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Re: Ubuntu: gitweb always looks for projects in /var/cache/git (“404 - no projects found”)

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AFAlfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes <alfonso.munozpomer@vti.bund.de>
Date
Dec 3, 2012, 17:10 UTC
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<50BCDD20.1050709@vti.bund.de>
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<20121129182826.GB17309@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Thank you very much for the clarification. Noticing how this wasn’t documented anywhere I had the feeling that I was missing something.

On Thu 29 Nov 2012 19:28:26 CET, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 01:55:57PM +0000, Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes wrote:
>
>> I’ve discovered this weird behaviour in gitweb and documented a workaround in
>> StackOverflow:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13609475/ubuntu-gitweb-always-looks-for-projects-in-var-cache-git-404-no-projects-f
>>
>> Basically, the variable $projectroot in gitweb.cgi in the beginning is reset to
>> the system default value in git_get_projects_list, when it is declared again.
>>
>> Is this a known bug? Or am I missing something?
>
> I think the analysis in that stack overflow post is wrong. The use of
> "our" in git_get_projects_list is not the culprit.
>
> The problem is that one should not edit gitweb.cgi directly; its
> built-in defaults (which you are tweaking) are overridden by
> /etc/gitweb.conf, which is shipped by the Ubuntu package. You should
> be making your changes in the config file, not the CGI script.
>
> -Peff

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