[syslinux] git daemon on zytor is back in action

H. Peter Anvin
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 03:55:18 -0000

On 06/10/2015 01:54 AM, Ady via Syslinux wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Thank you.
>
> Moving from gitweb-caching to cgit causes most http(s) links that are
> already pointing to git.zytor.com to fail with the message "Invalid
> request".
>
> Such links might exist in bug reports, mailing lists, documentation,
> and wiki pages; certainly in those that are part of The Syslinux
> Project.
>
> Considering that gitweb is part of (or bundled with) the Git
> distribution archives, is it really necessary to move to cgit?
>
> Perhaps it is possible to simply keep (at least for now) the latest
> version available of gitweb-caching?
>

It doesn't work with current versions of Perl -- if you recall, it
spewed out an error page.  The noncaching version, which is the one
included with git, brings even a beefy server with little traffic like
terminus to its knees, which just isn't acceptable.

So unless someone wants to keep gitweb-caching at least alive, it isn't
an option.

> Or perhaps there is a way to avoid the "Invalid request" message?
Maybe
> by some (automatic) redirection to the adequate corresponding new
> "cgit" link?

It certainly would be possible to do a redirection, if one can come up
with a mapping from gitweb queries to cgit queries, which I don't know
if someone has already done...

> In the case of the official Syslinux wiki, we could manually update
> every failing link, but that doesn't help links already posted in prior
> emails (e.g. in the Syslinux Mailing List, in bugzilla.syslinux.org
> ...). And then there are other (external) sites, mailing lists, bug
> reports...
>
> @Warthog9, any suggestions?
>