prerequisites.md

Prerequisites

Required software

• GitLab 6.x
• pyapi-gitlab3 @ v0.5.2
• GNU coreutils
• git 1.6.5 or later (git 1.6.5 introduced transport helpers)

If you plan on mirroring SVN repositories as well then you'll need the following additional options.

• git-svn

If you plan on mirroring BZR repositories then you'll need the following aditional options.

• git-bzr-helper

Required software install snippets

python-gitlab

yum install python-setuptools
git clone https://github.com/alexvh/python-gitlab3.git
cd python-gitlab3
git checkout v0.5.2
python setup.py install

Installing git

If you use package management then it will likely be best for you to install git via package management for your OS. You can find the source to git at the git-core project. For instructions on other platforms see the Getting Started - Installing Git section of the git book. The following is for compiling git 1.8.4 on RHEL 6.4.

yum install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker zlib zlib-devel openssh libcurl libcurl-devel expat expat-devel gettext gettext-devel
cd /usr/local/src/
git clone https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
cd git-core/
git tag
git checkout v1.8.4
make configure
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

Your git should now be located in /usr/local/bin/git. You should edit /etc/profile and place /usr/local/bin at the beginning of your $PATH.

git-bzr-helper

sudo -i -u gitmirror
mkdir ~/bin
wget https://raw.github.com/felipec/git/fc/master/git-remote-bzr.py -O ~/bin/git-remote-bzr
chmod 755 ~bin/git-remote-bzr

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