GitLab

Created by: crohr

I think it would be nice if Gitlab came with a rake task to streamline the gitlab-shell installation, based on the existing Gitlab configuration. This task does just that, and allows for upgrading to a newer version of gitlab-shell as well.

rake gitlab:shell:install
# or, with specific version
rake gitlab:shell:install[v1.9.3]

What this does:

• fetch gitlab-shell code from github, at the given tag/branch/commit given.
• write gitlab-shell/config.yml based on the existing gitlab config
• launch the installation process of gitlab-shell
• write the current PATH to $gitlab-shell-home/.ssh/environment, so that the #!/usr/bin/env ruby shebang in gitlab-shell files returns the right ruby version (i.e. the one currently used by the gitlab app).

The last point requires a change in the sshd configuration to take effect, with potential security issues if the server is also used by normal users (http://www.openssh.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config), so if this is an issue I'm happy to remove lines 50 to 58, as it would not apply to an 'install-everything-from-source' gitlab installation anyway.

Created by: dosire

Can you also change the documentation in doc/install/installation.md to use this new method?

By Administrator on 2014-04-08T14:27:45 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: crohr

@dosire added the documentation. Should I keep the old one around in case gitlab-shell is not installed on the same server as the gitlab app ? (actually, is it possible?).

By Administrator on 2014-04-08T14:45:27 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: MrKeiKun

questions

1. What if I want the latest gitlab shell? is there way to do that?
2. What is gitlab is not installed over /home/git/? (example: /var/git/gitlab) is there way to install gitlab-shell in /var/git/gitlab-shell ?

By Administrator on 2014-04-08T15:11:52 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: dosire

@crohr Thanks! It is always installed on the same server, so no need to keep the doc around.

By Administrator on 2014-04-08T15:11:52 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: crohr

@MrKeiKun

1. just run rake gitlab:shell:install[master], and it should reset to the latest commit on the master branch.
2. That task is using the gitlab settings to know in which place it needs to install stuff. So yes, if you configure user_home to be /var/git (in gitlab.yml), then it will install gitlab-shell at /var/git/gitlab-shell.

By Administrator on 2014-04-08T15:17:21 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: jvanbaarsen

@crohr Thanks for this awesome PR ❤

By Administrator on 2014-04-08T18:10:03 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: MrKeiKun

@crohr

nice 👍

By Administrator on 2014-04-09T02:41:08 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: dosire

@randx What do you think?

By Administrator on 2014-04-09T06:46:21 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: dzaporozhets

I like idea. But I need to test it before merge

By Administrator on 2014-04-09T18:23:57 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: dosire

@crohr It will be a few weeks before @randx has time to review this. If you have smaller MR's in the mean time please submit them separately.

By Administrator on 2014-04-10T07:04:04 (imported from GitLab project)