UPDATE Nov 16h 2010: I wrote that a long time ago, since then, the installation has been much easier. The following guide is pretty good
I've used one main resource, but comments are closed, so I've decided to throw random remarks in this post, for myself and for you dear googler.
The reference is here:
It looks much better than the official documentation, at least if like my you don't usually touch java stuff.
- I used ubuntu 9.04 (xen)
- apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client postfix
- I've started installing java packages (sun-java6 sun-java6-jre libcommons-configuration-java libservlet2.4-java un-java6-javadb) not sure all are usefull though
- Step 4: I didn't use phpmysql to create gerrit2 user but:
'GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 'gerrit2'.* TO 'gerrit2'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTIONS; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;' - Step 9: when you are done editing GerritServer.properties you should move it to /home/gerrit2/cfg and chown it to gerrit2 user.
- Step 11: though jetty7 should work (using the distribution package?) I went for the latest 6 version.
- Step 12: I'm not sure about this 'plus' directory. I've done what she said, but l've also put stuff into 'jetty/lib/ext/'
- Also, in addition to the two packages to add, I've also moved the stuff I've apt-getted previously:
- cp /usr/share/java/commons-pool-1.4.jar jetty/lib/ext/
- cp /usr/share/java/commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar jetty/lib/ext/
- Step 13: The documentation says:
java -jar gerrit-*.war --cat extra/jetty_gerrit.xml >gerrit.xml
But with my version it was more 'extra/jetty6/gerrit.xml' find out for yours using 'java -jar gerrit*war -ls' - Step 15: I installed jetty on 0.0.0.0:8081 instead of 127.0.0.1:8081
Tada! I had gerrit UI at the address above.
I registered the first user with openid.
Then it turns out I had to add an admin group, the SQL from the official guide wasn't working, so I did this:
insert into account_group_members (account_id, group_id) values (1, 1);
After having verified that my id was 1 and the admin group id was 1 too.
I declared my email address, which I confirmed.
I declared my ssh public key.
I declared my ssh username.
I restarted gerrit.
I confirmed that my ssh key was taken into account by:
ssh -p 29418 yann@codereview.local # should say: 'no shell something'
ssh -p 29418 yann@codereview.local gerrit ls-projects
Then I created my first project:
ssh -p 29418 gerrit@codereview.local gerrit create-project --name findlib
Then I had to give my group (Administrators) the right to push into this new project (using the UI)
Then I pushed my 'my-review' branch, should be something like:
git push ssh://yann@codereview.local:29418/findlib my-review
Then I worked.
Then I committed the work.
Then I used the magical refs to create a review:
git push ssh://yann@codereview.local:29418/findlib HEAD:refs/for/my-review
That's all, I hope this helps, comments are wide open for addendum to the above, but don't ask for help since it's merely chance that I went through all these steps without killing myself, so the mailing list would be a better place to ask.
Hi, I also follow Greg meiste's post to install Gerrit, but unfortunately, I'm not so lucky. In step 5 of Greg's post,
while executing:
java -jar gerrit-*.war --cat extra/GerritServer.properties_example >GerritServer.properties
the console always tells "error: no such file extra/GerritServer.properties_example", which means GerritServer.properties_example file cannot be found. Can you help me, where can I find this file? Thanks in advance.
My mail is : edwin.rong@gmail.com