Re: help with gitlab on buster
On 2/14/2020 5:42 PM, Graham Seaman wrote:
> I run a debian house server for firewall, routing etc. The last few
> years I've also run gitlab on it, which I use to manage text files I
> work on from an assortment of laptops/PCs; I have a lot of these files
> (currently around 12 Gb) and really don't want to lose them. After the
> initial setup I didn't do anything with the gitlab code and don't even
> remember what version it was.
>
> So this week, without thinking particularly about gitlab, I upgraded
> from stretch to buster. No complaints during the upgrade, but gitlab no
> longer worked (now dependent on a directory called 'embedded' which I
> don't have). So I followed the recommendation on
> https://wiki.debian.org/gitlab to update gitlab using buster-fastrack.
> This installed an alarmingly huge number of ruby and node dependencies,
> then failed informing me that I the database changes were too big to go
> straight from my old version to the current debian one, and that I need
> to transition through version 11.11.0 first.
>
> There is no debian package for this, and 11.11.0 is only available from
> gitlab.com as a docker install, but I'm running directly on my host.
>
Cant' you use docker on an other host, for example, in a VM?
> Can anyone suggest how to get myself a working gitlab again. without
> losing the current data? I could live with a command-line only version,
> if I couldn't get the web side working again.
>
First off, backup your data! :)
Basically, my idea would be to find a way to follow the correct upgrade
procedure.
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John Doe
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