Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git server upgraded

[Bob Proulx]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> TL;DR: git server upgraded, please report any problems

Ohhhhh....  Drat!  Of course python2 has been deprecated in the newer
OS versions and is no longer installed by default.  It turns out that
many of the git hooks used are python2 scripts and either do not work
with python3 or explicitly call out to python2.

(I sit here and take a deep breath.)  This will take more than a quick
fix.

In Trisquel 11 python2.7 is still available for install but this is a
dead end.  In 12 and later it's gone.  So while this can be very
temporarily mitigated by installing python2 the problem hits us almost
immediately when 12 releases.  And that release is already overdue and
will probably be here at any time.

I have switched the DNS back to the previous server vcs2 in order to
restore full operation while this is sorted out.  It's on a short 300
second TTL time-to-live just in case of this type of problem.

And then the task will be to search through all of the repositories
looking for where any python2 scripts are called that need to be
switched or updated.  After that gets fixed everywhere then we will
try again.

Additionally it was reported that cgit's tar.gz creation process
produces truncated tar.gz files.  That external interface was not in
my regression tests and I had not tested it at all.

    
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/administration/savannah-tests.git/tree/test

We are back reverted to running on the previous Trisquel 9 server
until these problems are worked out.  Then will try again.

Bob