hgweb not running hooks

[Pierre-Yves David]

I remember that config is a regular issue with hgweb, it read a 
different file and usually run with a different user who might not trust 
the owner of the config.

I CCed Georges Racinet, A colleague who recently worked with hgweb

On 11/19/19 8:42 AM, Morten Laursen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We had an Ubuntu 16.04 server running SCM Manager for serving Mercurial 
> (v3.7.3). We have a custom script running in a changegroup hook.
> 
> After update to Ubuntu 18.04 (Mercurial 4.5.3) this hook is no longer 
> called.
> 
> The hook configuration is
> 
> $ ls -la /home/scm/.hgrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 scm scm 82 Nov 11 11:21 /home/scm/.hgrc
> $ cat /home/scm/.hgrc
> [hooks]
> changegroup.rp = /home/rp/rp/hg/rps_hook_changegroup
> 
> scm is the user running the web server:
> scm       96357   2058  0 10:13 ?        00:00:00      \_ python 
> /var/lib/scm/lib/python/hgweb.py
> 
> This worked fine before upgrading. We have identified that restoring the 
> old server and upgrading only Mercurial to 4.4.1 or 4.8.1 also causes 
> the hook to not be called.
> 
> If the hook is placed in /etc/mercurial/hgrc it is still not called.
> 
> If the hook is placed inside the repository it works:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 scm scm 450 Nov 11 11:31 
> /home/repo/hg/Projects/rptest1/.hg/hgrc
> 
> In this file I tried to make a hook to dump the configuration in this 
> context.
> changegroup.rp4 = hg config --debug
> 
> The output of this shows, that the hook from /home/scm/.hgrc is loaded.
> 
> It seems to me, that hgweb does not read the same config files as hg.
> 
> Can you advice on how to configure a post-push server side hook on 
> Mercurial 4.5.1 ?
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Morten
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Pierre-Yves David