How To Install gitolite3 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gitolite3 on Rocky Linux 8. gitolite3 is Highly flexible server for git directory version tracker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gitolite3 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `gitolite3`

Gitolite allows a server to host many git repositories and provide access to many developers, without having to give them real userids on the server. The essential magic in doing this is ssh’s pubkey access and the authorized keys file, and the inspiration was an older program called gitosis. Gitolite can restrict who can read from (clone/fetch) or write to (push) a repository. It can also restrict who can push to what branch or tag, which is very important in a corporate environment. Gitolite can be installed without requiring root permissions, and with no additional software than git itself and perl. It also has several other neat features described below and elsewhere in the doc/ directory.

We can use yum or dnf to install gitolite3 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gitolite3.

Install gitolite3 on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gitolite3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gitolite3

Install gitolite3 on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gitolite3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gitolite3

How To Uninstall gitolite3 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the gitolite3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gitolite3

gitolite3 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/gitolite
/usr/share/doc/gitolite3
/usr/share/doc/gitolite3/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/gitolite3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gitolite3/README.markdown
/usr/share/doc/gitolite3/gitolite3-README-fedora
/usr/share/gitolite3
/usr/share/gitolite3/VERSION
/usr/share/gitolite3/VREF
/usr/share/gitolite3/VREF/COUNT
/usr/share/gitolite3/VREF/EMAIL-CHECK
/usr/share/gitolite3/VREF/FILETYPE
/usr/share/gitolite3/VREF/MAX_NEWBIN_SIZE
/usr/share/gitolite3/VREF/MERGE-CHECK
/usr/share/gitolite3/VREF/NAME_NC
/usr/share/gitolite3/VREF/VOTES
/usr/share/gitolite3/VREF/lock
/usr/share/gitolite3/VREF/partial-copy
/usr/share/gitolite3/VREF/refex-expr
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/1plus1
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/D
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/access
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/compile-1
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/compile-template-data
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/config
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/create
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/creator
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/desc
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/fork
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/git-annex-shell
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/git-config
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/help
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/htpasswd
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/info
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/list-dangling-repos
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/lock
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/mirror
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/motd
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/newbranch
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/option
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/owns
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/perms
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/print-default-rc
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/push
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/readme
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/rsync
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/sshkeys-lint
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/sskm
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/sudo
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/svnserve
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/symbolic-ref
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/who-pushed
/usr/share/gitolite3/commands/writable
/usr/share/gitolite3/gitolite
/usr/share/gitolite3/gitolite-shell
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Cache.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Common.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Conf
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Conf.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Conf/Explode.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Conf/Load.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Conf/Store.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Conf/Sugar.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Easy.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Hooks
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Hooks/PostUpdate.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Hooks/Update.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Rc.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Setup.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Test
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Test.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Test/Tsh.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers/Alias.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers/AutoCreate.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers/CpuTime.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers/Kindergarten.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers/Mirroring.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers/Motd.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers/RefexExpr.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers/RepoUmask.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers/Shell.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers/TProxy.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/lib/Gitolite/Triggers/Writable.pm
/usr/share/gitolite3/syntactic-sugar
/usr/share/gitolite3/syntactic-sugar/continuation-lines
/usr/share/gitolite3/syntactic-sugar/keysubdirs-as-groups
/usr/share/gitolite3/syntactic-sugar/macros
/usr/share/gitolite3/syntactic-sugar/refex-expr
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/bg
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/expand-deny-messages
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/partial-copy
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/post-compile
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/post-compile/create-with-reference
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/post-compile/ssh-authkeys
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/post-compile/ssh-authkeys-shell-users
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/post-compile/ssh-authkeys-split
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/post-compile/update-description-file
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/post-compile/update-git-configs
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/post-compile/update-git-daemon-access-list
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/post-compile/update-gitweb-access-list
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/post-compile/update-gitweb-daemon-from-options
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/renice
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/repo-specific-hooks
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/set-default-roles
/usr/share/gitolite3/triggers/upstream
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Cache.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Common.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Conf
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Conf.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Conf/Explode.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Conf/Load.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Conf/Store.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Conf/Sugar.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Easy.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Hooks
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Hooks/PostUpdate.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Hooks/Update.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Rc.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Setup.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Test
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Test.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Test/Tsh.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers/Alias.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers/AutoCreate.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers/CpuTime.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers/Kindergarten.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers/Mirroring.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers/Motd.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers/RefexExpr.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers/RepoUmask.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers/Shell.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers/TProxy.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gitolite/Triggers/Writable.pm
/var/lib/gitolite3
/var/lib/gitolite3/.ssh
/var/lib/gitolite3/.ssh/authorized_keys

References

gitolite3 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gitolite3 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.