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authorLuca Milanesio <luca.milanesio@gmail.com>Wed Jan 07 21:00:29 2026 +0000
committerLuca Milanesio <luca.milanesio@gmail.com>Thu Jan 08 14:18:50 2026 -0800
tree56fa1e230b5464ae447423c84eeaab510e3a3084
parent76bbe759b463c2c589b78ec10704babc2666367c [diff]
Allow building when Python lib cannot be chowned

When building Gerrit on MacOS and bazel mods, the build may fail with:
"Error in fail: Failed to make interpreter installation read-only.
'chmod' error msg"

The error happens when trying to perform a chmod of the Python lib,
which the current user may not have permission to change.

Relaxing the ignore_root_user_error flag solves the problem.

The associated Bazel issue at [1] and has later fixed with [2].

[1] https://github.com/bazel-contrib/rules_python/issues/2016
[2] https://github.com/bazel-contrib/rules_python/pull/3421

Release-Notes: skip
Change-Id: I326025b80a644a2a485ee936b4cfe1429d9d81f2
2 files changed
tree: 56fa1e230b5464ae447423c84eeaab510e3a3084
  1. .github/
  2. .settings/
  3. .ts-out/
  4. antlr3/
  5. contrib/
  6. Documentation/
  7. e2e-tests/
  8. java/
  9. javatests/
  10. lib/
  11. modules/
  12. plugins/
  13. polygerrit-ui/
  14. prolog/
  15. prologtests/
  16. proto/
  17. resources/
  18. tools/
  19. webapp/
  20. polymer-bridges
  21. .bazelignore
  22. .bazelproject
  23. .bazelrc
  24. .bazelversion
  25. .editorconfig
  26. .git-blame-ignore-revs
  27. .gitignore
  28. .gitmodules
  29. .gitreview
  30. .mailmap
  31. .pydevproject
  32. .zuul.yaml
  33. BUILD
  34. COPYING
  35. GEMINI.md
  36. INSTALL
  37. Jenkinsfile
  38. MODULE.bazel
  39. MODULE.bazel.lock
  40. package.json
  41. README.md
  42. SUBMITTING_PATCHES
  43. version.bzl
  44. web-dev-server.config.mjs
  45. WORKSPACE
  46. WORKSPACE.bzlmod
  47. yarn.lock
README.md

Gerrit Code Review

Gerrit is a code review and project management tool for Git based projects.

Build Status Maven Central

Objective

Gerrit makes reviews easier by showing changes in a side-by-side display, and allowing inline comments to be added by any reviewer.

Gerrit simplifies Git based project maintainership by permitting any authorized user to submit changes to the master Git repository, rather than requiring all approved changes to be merged in by hand by the project maintainer.

Documentation

For information about how to install and use Gerrit, refer to the documentation.

Source

Our canonical Git repository is located on googlesource.com. There is a mirror of the repository on Github.

Reporting bugs

Please report bugs on the issue tracker.

Contribute

Gerrit is the work of hundreds of contributors. We appreciate your help!

Please read the contribution guidelines.

Note that we do not accept Pull Requests via the Github mirror.

Getting in contact

The Developer Mailing list is repo-discuss on Google Groups.

License

Gerrit is provided under the Apache License 2.0.

Build

Install Bazel and run the following:

    git clone --recurse-submodules https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit
    cd gerrit && bazel build release

Install binary packages (Deb/Rpm)

The instruction how to configure GerritForge/BinTray repositories is here

On Debian/Ubuntu run:

    apt-get update && apt-get install gerrit=<version>-<release>

NOTE: release is a counter that starts with 1 and indicates the number of packages that have been released with the same version of the software.

On CentOS/RedHat run:

    yum clean all && yum install gerrit-<version>[-<release>]

On Fedora run:

    dnf clean all && dnf install gerrit-<version>[-<release>]

Use pre-built Gerrit images on Docker

Docker images of Gerrit are available on DockerHub

To run a CentOS 8 based Gerrit image:

    docker run -p 8080:8080 gerritcodereview/gerrit[:version]-centos8

To run a Ubuntu 20.04 based Gerrit image:

    docker run -p 8080:8080 gerritcodereview/gerrit[:version]-ubuntu20

NOTE: release is optional. Last released package of the version is installed if the release number is omitted.