Hi Misc, I am resurrecting this 4 months old thread to leave electronic trace to people who find themselves trying to install ViewVC on OpenBSD. After four months of trying to adjust number of kernel file descriptors to compensate for the memory leak of the built in Python web server which comes with ViewVC I throw in the towel and migrated the ViewVC to stock Apache server
# uname -a OpenBSD svnhub.int.autonlab.org 5.5 GENERIC.MP#315 amd64 To get ViewVC to work I have done the following: 1. Install www/mod_scgi devel/subversion lang/python/2.7 textproc/py-pygments devel/cvsgraph Note I didn't bother to create commit database. 2. Download ViewVC from a website and "install" using ./viewvc-install script. The only input viewvc-install expect is the location where binaries have to be installed in our case proabably /usr/local/bin/viewvc is appropriate location. 2. Enable mod_scgi by running a script (please see the package message) 3. Edit /var/www/conf/httpd.conf the line LoadModule scgi_module /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_scgi.so should be present after you run the script from mod_scgi installation message. Remove the default ScriptAlias and add ScriptAlias /viewvc "/usr/local/bin/viewvc-1.1.22/bin/cgi/viewvc.cgi" ScriptAlias /query "/usr/local/bin/viewvc-1.1.22/bin/cgi/query.cgi" Note that I kept the name viewvc with the version of the program Replace <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> with <Directory "/usr/local/bin/viewvc-1.1.22/bin/cgi"> 4. vi /usr/local/bin/viewvc-1.1.22/viewvc.conf specify CVS root in my case cvs_roots = CVS: /var/CVS specify Subversion root_parents in my case root_parents = /var/svn/svnrepos: svn optional enable_syntax_coloration = 1 use_cvsgraph = 1 cvsgraph = /usr/local/bin/cvsgraph 5. Make sure ViewVC has read access to CVS repositories. 6. Finally use flag -u to run Apache since otherwise be ready to put Perl, Python and ten other things into chroot. It is just not worth the effort IMHO for something I run internally. Cheers, Predrag Punosevac
