Hi Evgeny and whoever wants to do some code review,
I have been experiencing this same issue for years now and have been manually chmod'ing /var/lib/gitolite every time I upgraded because I didn't understand what was happening. All this time I thought I had gitolite misconfigured, that maybe I didn't have its umask config set properly, but it was Guix all along! In this case that's great, because it makes the problem easy for me to fix. Patch attached. It works like a charm for my personal git server (
https://git.dthompson.us), /var/lib/gitolite was 700 before a system reconfigure, and 750 afterwards.
Big thanks to Evgeny for making a bug report and doing the research to identify the root cause!
- Dave
0001-services-gitolite-Relax-permissions-on-service-user-.patch