Bug 680175

That is because I suck. I had it in corporate repository and thus somehow did not notice it missing in EPEL...

Built here, please give it a try:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gitolite-1.5.9.1-1.el5.1

Karma it up if it works for you, it will be then pushed into stable after some time in testing.

Thank you!

Testing on CentOS 5.4:

[root@gitserver ~]# rpm -qa | grep git
gitolite-1.5.9.1-1.el5.1
git-1.7.4.1-1.el5

I've got this error:

-sh-3.2$ gl-setup /tmp/mykey.pub 
cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/share/gitolite/conf/example.gitolite.rc': No such file or directory
The default settings in the rc file (/var/lib/gitolite/.gitolite.rc) are fine for most
people but if you wish to make any changes, you can do so now.

hit enter...
error parsing /var/lib/gitolite/.gitolite.rc
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/gl-query-rc line 17.
error parsing /var/lib/gitolite/.gitolite.rc
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/gl-query-rc line 17.
error parsing /var/lib/gitolite/.gitolite.rc
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/gl-query-rc line 17.
ENV GL_BINDIR not set
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/gl-install line 15.
/usr/local/bin/gl-setup: line 113: /conf/gitolite.conf: No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file `/keydir': Permission denied
ENV GL_BINDIR not set
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/gl-compile-conf line 16.
/usr/local/bin/gl-setup: line 128: cd: /gitolite-admin.git: No such file or directory
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
ENV GL_BINDIR not set
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/gl-install line 15.
-sh-3.2$

It should be looking for /usr/share/gitolite/conf/example.gitolite.rc instead. 
I copied it in /usr/local/share/gitolite/conf/ and had another run. I got this message:

-sh-3.2$ gl-setup /tmp/mykey.pub 
cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/bin/../doc': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/bin/../hooks': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/bin/../conf/VERSION': No such file or directory
creating gitolite-admin...
Initialized empty Git repository in /var/lib/gitolite/repositories/gitolite-admin.git/
creating testing...
Initialized empty Git repository in /var/lib/gitolite/repositories/testing.git/
[master (root-commit) 2997c22] start
 Committer: git repository hosting <gitolite>
Your name and email address were configured automatically based
on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:

    git config --global user.name "Your Name"
    git config --global user.email you

After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:

    git commit --amend --reset-author

 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 conf/gitolite.conf
 create mode 100644 keydir/fabrizio.pub
cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/bin/../doc': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/bin/../hooks': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/bin/../conf/VERSION': No such file or directory

still can't give a karma up tough I'm really after that ;)

I'll take a look.

Meanwhile, could you please verify that documented way to set up gitolite from the package works? See /usr/share/doc/gitolite-1.5.9.1/gitolite-README-fedora

I did exactly what suggested in /usr/share/doc/gitolite-1.5.9.1/gitolite-README-fedora .

Lubo, since this is still in testing, and I'm fixing 2.0.2 in rawhide for a lot of things, any objections to my pushing that to all stable Fedora and EPEL branches if 713020 is fixed?

Is there any movement on this? I would love to see gitolite 2.x or 3.x built for EPEL5 and can help out if needed.

Do you have a preference, 2 or 3?

2 would be enough for me right now.

Ok, updating gitolite to 2.3 in el5.

gitolite-2.3.1-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gitolite-2.3.1-1.el5

Package gitolite-2.3.1-1.el5:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=epel-testing gitolite-2.3.1-1.el5'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2012-12769/gitolite-2.3.1-1.el5
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

gitolite-2.3.1-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.