Gitea [lightweight self-hosted Git service]

[veeara282]

Fixes Bug

N/A

Description of changes proposed in this pull request.

Add Gitea role to IIAB, per #1190.

Smoke-tested in operating system.

Travis CI - passes pipeline

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@holta, @coolaj86

[veeara282]

I'm using #894 as a template. I haven't added tasks/install.yml yet.

[tim-moody]

where does it store data? by convention we put everything in /library somewhere

also, unless a package puts the executable elsewhere, we tend to put things in /opt

[veeara282]

These are the locations Gitea typically uses, per the documentation:

• /usr/local/bin/gitea - the executable (it is typically downloaded to a temporary location first)
• /var/lib/gitea/{custom,data,indexers,public,log} - where application data are stored
• /etc/gitea/app.ini - the config file

[tim-moody]

OK for first pass, but we assume no space in /var.
/library/gitea would be better or /library/dbdata/gitea if it is a database.

[veeara282]

Okay. I'll make /library/gitea the working directory and /library/gitea/gitea the executable.

[holta]

@georgejhunt wonders if this really belongs on Raspberry Pis? Whereas it should work fine on NUC-like PC's of course!

Opinions?

Aside: see the ongoing "GitHub for offline classrooms" discussion (Gitea vs Gogs vs Gerrit+Gitolite/Gitweb vs GitLab?) at #1190

[holta]

@m-anish can you help us review this PR for possible inclusion in IIAB 7.0 in the context of offline uses in India please?

Gitea - Git with a cup of tea
A painless self-hosted Git service.
Gitea is a community managed fork of Gogs, lightweight code hosting solution written in Go and published under the MIT license.
https://gitea.io

What's your response to @georgejhunt's concern this is overkill for Raspberry Pi? FYI Gitea.io says it's very lightweight and runs great on RPi.

Thanks for sharing your opinions!

[holta]

Thanks @aidan-fitz for strongly considering this review's 10 changes so we can merge soon!

PS i hope to highlight your work at https://www.socallinuxexpo.org over the coming 3 days in Los Angeles / Pasadena...as emblematic of the growing potential for offline communities' authentic agency!

[holta]

@aidan-fitz I don't think anyone will care or even notice, but http://box/gitea does not redirect to http://box/gitea/ in my testing, for whatever reason.

(Just FYI http://box/gitea/ also works, so this does not appear to be a concern...)

[veeara282]

@holta Have you changed the clone URLs so that the domain is box?

[holta]

@holta Have you changed the clone URLs so that the domain is box?

When I wrote box/gitea I really meant things like:

• http://192.168.0.100/gitea does not redirect to http://192.168.0.100/gitea/
• http://10.8.0.50/gitea does not redirect to http://10.8.0.50/gitea/

Again no worries if all is working! Just not exactly what I expected, during my brief testing on both Raspbian and Ubuntu 18.04.

[m-anish]

@aidan-fitz Many thanks for working on this Aidan! I've been using gitea on the IIAB and absolutely love it. Thanks for patiently fixing the issues in this and making sure it works well.

Bravo!

[veeara282]

Glad you're getting value out of this!