Re: Proposal to deploy GitLab on gnome.org

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

On 2017-05-16 07:10 PM, Mattias Bengtsson wrote:
> How did you install GitLab? We use the omnibus RPM package for CentOS
> and have had no dependency problems while upgrading from some 7.x
> release all the way to 9.1.x over the last few years. A lot come
> bundled in the omnibus package and the rest gets installed from the
> host operating system repositories.

There's the difference. I don't trust the current omnibus package, so I 
install from source. That decision is old, but at the time we installed, 
there wasn't an omnibus package.

In general, IMO it's not appropriate to run whatever random libraries 
they threw into their package. It's very large, and if you don't use the 
host specifically for gitlab, it gets tricky using it with port 80 and 
443 with Apache.

A proper package would rely on system libraries only.

> Could it be that Debian stable is just very old?

I think it's proper to expect at least a 3 year lifecycle out of 
software that runs on a server, no? Can you imagine if Windows Server 
2012 was considered too old for a package equivalent to Gitlab? That 
just wouldn't happen.

Anyway, this is getting off-topic. Using the only appropriate install 
method for this package takes considerable effort.

--Pat