X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Gitweb/blobdiff_plain/6850f664696a5401ce056ebd2f3fe67327a8de05f1452306ba9e126446449f96..770213e5c94c82dd69cfa50652abefee9ec04318e7de0effc0696b22eb62117c:/INSTALL diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 2892fe1..ac52aec 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -29,12 +29,11 @@ Requirements ------------ - Core git tools - - Perl + - Perl 5.8 - Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename. - web server The following optional Perl modules are required for extra features - - Digest::MD5 - for gravatar support - CGI::Fast and FCGI - for running gitweb as FastCGI script - HTML::TagCloud - for fancy tag cloud in project list view - HTTP::Date or Time::ParseDate - to support If-Modified-Since for feeds @@ -243,14 +242,11 @@ for gitweb (in gitweb/README), and gitweb.conf(5) manpage. GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM build configuration variable, and override it through the GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM environment variable. - Note that if per-instance configuration file exists, then system-wide - configuration is _not used at all_. This is quite untypical and suprising - behavior. On the other hand changing current behavior would break backwards - compatibility and can lead to unexpected changes in gitweb behavior. - Therefore gitweb also looks for common system-wide configuration file, - normally /etc/gitweb-common.conf (set during build time using build time - configuration variable GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON, set it at runtime using - environment variable with the same name). Settings from per-instance or + Note that the GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM system-wide configuration file is + only used for instances that lack per-instance configuration file. + You can use GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON common system-wide configuration + file (normally /etc/gitweb-common.conf) to keep common default + settings that apply to all instances. Settings from per-instance or system-wide configuration file override those from common system-wide configuration file.