Re: on fedora, "man gitweb" exists but actual gitweb command is missing

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Hi,

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   not so much a git issue as what looks like a fedora packaging issue.

Yeah, it's just a minor packaging issue.  The gitweb
manpages are included in the main git package rather than in
the gitweb package with the rest of the gitweb files.  I'll
fix that for future releases and when f29 is updated to 2.21
it will pick that up¹.

Since gitweb requires git, you'd be sure to have the
documentation after installing gitweb.  If we made it
possible to install gitweb without getting the
documentation, that would be more annoying. :)

¹ https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/tmz/rpms/git/c/0d9ad786

> it took only a few seconds to determine that fedora bundles that
> functionality in two separate packages which are not dependencies of
> "git": "gitweb" and "git-instaweb" (output abbreviated):
> 
>   $ sudo dnf install git-instaweb
>   ...
>   Installing:
>    git-instaweb
>   Installing dependencies:
>    gitweb
>    perl-CGI
> 
> and now "git-instaweb" works fine.
> 
>   the question is, is it not inconsistent for fedora's basic "git"
> package to include the man page for gitweb, without including the
> corresponding functionality? is this something i should submit a
> fedora bugzilla report for? or am i misunderstanding something?

If I hadn't seen this thread, then a report in the fedora
bugzilla would be the way to go to ensure one of the fedora
git maintainers noticed it.

Thanks,

-- 
Todd




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