Alright, I'm going with the Fedora EPEL repositories. But last I
checked the latest version available via that method was 1.5.x. Since
this is a server, I preferred to use the latest and greatest so to last
in the long run from any major patches or cover any major upgrades, but
if that's the version that's preferred, who am I to argue. One problem
I recall in yum'ing the install for git however was the man pages
weren't installed either. I could be wrong however. I'll keep you guys
up to date. Wish me luck! Thanks for all your help and the timely
responses.
Also, is there how-tos you'd suggest I use in setting up the git/gitweb
combo with the yum install? I noticed yum installs files in different
locations then the source does. Thanks again!
On 9/30/10 1:27 AM, J.H. wrote:
On 09/29/2010 07:40 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
(-cc: security@centos)
Hi Dennis,
Dennis Huynh wrote:
Am I the only one having issues installing git docs?
Here's my advice:
1. Breathe in, breathe out.
2. Look at the INSTALL file, section beginning "To build and install
documentation suite". Among other things, it describes how to
retrieve pre-formatted documentation from the git.git repository
itself. So you can try:
git clone git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
For the love of monkeys do *NOT* point people at specific git machines
like that. Use git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git using a
specific machine causes a giant amount of headaches for me and
completely ruins any attempt at load balancing I might be able to
accomplish.
Couple that with the fact it will steer people to the wrong server if
they aren't in North America, it's just not a good idea. Period.
cd git
make quick-install-doc
after installing git, which should be relatively painless.
3. Look at gitweb/INSTALL. The moment something seems unclear, note
that, so we can come up with a patch to make it clearer for the
next person.
As an overall note, git and gitweb, including my caching version of
gitweb are available in Fedora EPEL as rpm packages. These are official
packages for Redhat / CentOS / Distro based on those things. You
shouldn't need to compile your own really.
Unless you need the latest and greatest I would try those. If you
really need the latest you might be better off grabbing the latest
.src.rpm from here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/RPMS/SRPMS/
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/RPMS/SRPMS/git-1.7.3.1-1.fc11.src.rpm
and doing an rpmbuild --rebuild git-1.7.3.1-1.fc11.src.rpm on it and
installing the rpm that it builds.
I'm not saying doing it completely from source is bad, but deviating
from what your distro uses / provides can cause other headaches and
maintenance issues down the line.
Bonus to going the RPM rebuild route is that it will tell you what your
missing to do the rebuild with.
- John 'Warthog9' Hawley
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