[Gitlab] Current Status of the port

[Steve Wills]

Hi, Torsten,

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 04:57:25PM +0200, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> after porting GitLab to support Rails 4.2 was not very successful, i've 
> started to get Rails 4.1 back into ports. You've already seen the PRs ;)
> 
> Normally i do not talk much if i'm not confident in the things i'm saying.
> 
> But today i reached a point, where i would say, that only some work is 
> left to finish the port. :)
> 

Thank you for working on this. It's great to see.

Before we work on getting all the ports committed, I'd like to be confident we
can have something that functions properly.Do the problems you mention below
mean that GitLab doesn't work? Or only works if you make some manual changes?

> Currently there are 3 problems open on my list:
> 
> - even if the git user is added to the redis group, gitlab is not able 
> to use the redis socket. I could change the permission to 777 for the 
> socket, but this seems very dirty to me
> 
> - the executable files in bin/ need an o+x currently. I believe this 
> could be fixed in the rc-script
> 
> - the rc-script makes me unhappy. i used the one from gitlab-recipes, 
> but its not as good as i want it. For example it do not check rc.conf 
> for gitlab_enable="YES"
> 

I can help with the rc script. We could perhaps write our own from scratch that
calls another script, or whatever is needed.

> You are welcome to have a look at my current work:
> svn checkout svn://svn.toco-domains.de/freebsd-ports/www/gitlab
> 
> BUT it is not usable for you. To build the Port 40 Rails 4.1 
> (slave-)ports are needed. There are all finished (and need a last 
> check), but i will convert them to PRs just after i finished the work at 
> the Gitlab port.
> 
> I've also started a documentation for the users:
> https://github.com/t-zuehlsdorff/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/install/installation-freebsd.md
> 
> English is not my native language. Feel free to improve everything ;)
> 

I'll try to checkout your current work and see if I can get it working.

Thanks!

Steve
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