From: Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:10:56 GMT Subject: Re: Ubuntu: gitweb always looks for projects in /var/cache/git (“404 - no projects found”) Message-ID: <50BCDD20.1050709@vti.bund.de> In-Reply-To: <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: > 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 -- Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ländliche Räume, Wald und Fischerei Institut für Forstgenetik Sieker Landstrasse 2 22927 Grosshansdorf Telefon: +49 (0)4102/696-145 Fax: +49 (0)4102/696-200 Email: alfonso.munozpomer@vti.bund.de Web: http://www.vti.bund.de