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Postby ceda » Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:58 pm

there exists a gitlab package for both Arch Linux as well as Raspbian.
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Re: Gitlab

Postby WarheadsSE » Sun Mar 18, 2018 3:31 pm

As both a maintainer in ALARM and as a Distribution Engineer with GitLab, I can point you to a few causes:

- The package in the repositories is built as a source install, with multiple components.
- Some of those packages rely on other packages such as Ruby, gRPC gem, jemalloc, etc. that often have issues building for ARM. These can be a PITA to keep up with. Raspbian has the "advantage" of being based on older toolchains that rarely upset these downstream dependencies.
- When a set of packages or dependencies of packages has a consistent issue with maintenance that requires more time than available for the value (return on investment basics), ALARM will pull that package from the repositories rather than have an aging/broken package.

If enough value weight is presented, we can revisit such a change.
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Re: Gitlab

Postby WarheadsSE » Sun Mar 18, 2018 3:34 pm

I should add, being a GitLab employee and Distribution Engineer, that any Pi other than the Pi 3 really doesn't have the CPU power (which it barely does). The tight memory environment also requires a large amount of tuning to get decent performance out of the installation, which often includes disabling some functionality, and dedicating the host to the task of running GitLab. Add that to the lack of reliability on the storage performance on the device (it was never intended to be a dedicated high-load device), and you're looking for pain if you aren't educated in what you're getting in to.
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Re: Gitlab

Postby andre » Sun Mar 18, 2018 6:33 pm

From experience, an ODROID U3 isn't strong enough to run gitlab. I'm running gitea instead.
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