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== Stretch Backports (upgrade to buster) ==
Gitlab 11.4.9 is available in stretch-backports (still affected by some security issues, many security releases behind).		 == Gitlab on Stetch ==
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Gitlab 11.5.10 is available for stretch-backports via personal repo of gitlab maintainer (many security releases behind) from https://people.debian.org/~praveen/gitlab

Add to `/etc/apt/sources.list`
{{{
deb https://people.debian.org/~praveen/gitlab stretch-backports contrib main
}}}

''Note 1: Official stretch-backports repo is also required for this personal repo to work. See [[Backports]]. You will also need contrib section''

{{{
# apt -t stretch-backports install gitlab
}}}

It is recommended to upgrade to buster to receive security updates.

Note: Remove unnecessary packages after upgrade (remove ruby-bootsnap if you see strange load errors).

{{{
# apt remove rails npm ruby-bootsnap
}}}

== Stretch (upgrade to stretch-backports and then to buster) ==
Gitlab 8.13.11 is available in stretch, but it is not receiving any security updates. So it is recommended to update to newer versions from unstable or buster or stretch-backports.

{{{
# apt install gitlab
}}}

It is recommended to upgrade to stretch-backports and then to buster to receive security updates.		 This is moved to [[gitlab/stretch]] now.

Contents

  1. Buster Fast Track (Recommended)
  2. Unstable (be careful when updating packages)
  3. Experimental - During freeze and transitions
  4. Gitlab on Stetch
  5. Contact maintainers
  6. Maintainer's corner
  7. Omnibus Packages
  8. Install
    1. Step 1
    2. Step 2
    3. Step 3
    4. Step 4
  9. External Resources

Gitlab is a git front end with repository management, graphs, links, goodies, commands to run, and review capabilities similar in feel to a self-hosted ?GitHub.

Debian is running its own Instance of GitLab under https://salsa.debian.org, which is not based on the packaged version.

Buster Fast Track (Recommended)

Gitlab 12.0.9 is available in unofficial fasttrack repo (some packages are still needed from personal repo of gitlab maintainer) targeting buster as base distribution. (two security releases behind).

Add to /etc/apt/sources.list 

deb http://fasttrack.debian.net/debian/ buster-fasttrack main contrib
deb http://fasttrack.debian.net/debian/ buster-backports main contrib 
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports contrib main
# Eventually the packages in this repo will be moved to one of the previous two repos
deb https://people.debian.org/~praveen/gitlab buster-backports contrib main

# apt update

You may encounter the following error message: 

The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 0B76920762A6B785

If so, those commands can help: 

# wget https://people.debian.org/~praveen/gitlab/praveen.key.asc
# wget http://fasttrack.debian.net/fasttrack-archive-key.asc
# apt-key add praveen.key.asc
# apt-key add fasttrack-archive-key.asc

Finally: 

# apt -t buster-backports install gitlab

Note: https://gitlab.debian.net is running on this version.

Unstable (be careful when updating packages)

Gitlab 11.8.10 is available in unstable (many open security issues). Note: Use experimental till libgit2 transition is complete. 

# apt install gitlab

We try to keep the version in unstable in a good shape with the latest security updates, but some times dependency updates break GitLab.

Experimental - During freeze and transitions

Gitlab 12.2.8 is available in experimental (no open security issues). If you are using experimental for the first time, check DebianExperimental.

libgit2, grpc and protobuf transition is delaying upload to unstable. 

# apt -t experimental install ruby-rugged ruby-grpc ruby-google-protobuf
# apt -t experimental install gitlab-workhorse gitaly ruby-gitaly
# apt -t experimental install ruby-devise ruby-task-list ruby-bootstrap-form ruby-sshkey ruby-default-value-for ruby-benchmark-ips ruby-omniauth-google-oauth2 ruby-invisible-captcha ruby-gitlab-sidekiq-fetcher ruby-redis ruby-gitlab-labkit 
# apt install gitlab/experimental

Gitlab on Stetch

This is moved to gitlab/stretch now.

Contact maintainers

You can reach the maintainers of the gitlab package via

  1. Matrix at #debian-gitlab:poddery.com (join via browser)

  2. IRC #debian-gitlab on OFTC network (join via browser)

Maintainer's corner

  1. Installing gitlab on an lxc container to test - See gitlab/lxc

  2. Updating gitlab package to newer versions - See Teams/Ruby/Packaging/newUpstreamRailsApp

TODO

  1. Aim to get gitlab back in main by bullseye release by packaging all node dependencies. We can do this gradually starting with webpack from the archive.
  2. Get autopkgtest working so we can detect problems when someone updates dependencies without coordinating with us.

Omnibus Packages

Note: this section is about the installation of upstream-provided unofficial packages.

Install

all actions are performed under the root user, in ~ unless otherwise noted.

Step 1

navigate to https://about.gitlab.com/install/ and copy down the link to the Debian deb package.

as of this writing @ June 5, 2014

run

Step 2

run

  • dpkg -i gitlab*

Step 3

i got errors 1st time around 2nd time around gitlab looked like it set everything and ran well.

To avoid errors, execute /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/runsvdir-start for one minute, more or less (tested in 7.9.0 and 7.9.1 omnibus versions).

run

  • gitlab-ctl reconfigure

to verify that things are running

run

  • gitlab-ctl status

Step 4

navigate to your servers IP address or domain name, and login as:

user: root password: 5iveL!fe

External Resources

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/README.md