Upgrading gogs on CentOS 6 to gitea 1.0.0

[RichieB2B]

I just went through the process of upgrading gogs 0.9.97 to gitea 1.0.0. Since I used the RPM to install gogs I needed to modify several things to get things working.

I started following this guide, but soon realized all you need from there is:

cp -r gitea-v1.0.0/options /opt/gogs/options

Interestingly enough that guide does not tell you to install the gitea binary, which I installed as /opt/gogs/gitea-1.0.0-linux-amd64

The only real problem is that the gitea binary is linked against glibc 2.14:

$ ./gitea-1.0.0-linux-amd64 web
./gitea-1.0.0-linux-amd64: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by ./gitea)

The solution for this is to install glibc 2.14 in /opt.

To load the new libc I created a new script /opt/gogs/gogs (replaces the old gogs binary):

#!/bin/sh

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/glibc-2.14/lib /opt/gogs/gitea-1.0.0-linux-amd64 "$@"

I linked this file to /opt/gogs/gitea because gitea writes this path in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

ln -s /opt/gogs/gogs /opt/gogs/gitea

After this gitea is a true drop-in replacement for gogs. Perhaps this above can be documented somewhere.

[tboerger]

For 1.1.0 we will provide binaries without the glibc requirement. Beside that we still want to provide proper rpms for the major distros and this will also resolve this issue

[lunny]

So we need a document update to close this issue?

[tboerger]

@lunny at least we should add a note to the docs for now

[RichieB2B]

I modified my solution slightly because after gitea rebuilds /home/gogs/.ssh/authorized_keys it puts /opt/gogs/gitea in there. So this needs to be a wrapper script as well.

[donguidou]

The nightly builds still require glibc-2.14.

[tboerger]

The nightly builds still require glibc-2.14.

Of course, because the issue is not resolved yet.

[lunny]

Is there any docs updated to close this?

[tboerger]

The upcoming release 1.1.0 won't depend on glibc anymore because of #985