Gentoo Packages

Due to a dirty hack (1) the build time for gitlabhq and gitlab-gitaly could be halved for upgrades/rebuilds of an existing installation.

If you already used this overlay before version 13.7.x there may be some leftover files/directories on your GitLab host because of the major modifications of the ebuilds starting with version 13.6.2 in December 2020. On my GitLab host I found and removed e.g.:

/var/lib/gitlab/.bundle/
/var/lib/gitlab/.cache/
/var/lib/gitlab/.config/
/var/lib/gitlab/.node-gyp/
/var/lib/gitlab/.yarn/
/var/lib/gitlab/.yarnrc
/var/log/githooks/

Also old gilabhq base dirs and old log dirs:

/opt/gitlab/gitlabhq-<old-versions>
/var/log/gitlabhq-<old-versions>

The eselect modules for gitlabhq and gitlab-gitaly give a hint now to clean up the old version when you switch to a new slot.

--- (1) Instead of always starting from scratch the ebuild now copies

• /opt/gitlab/gitlabhq/vendor/bundle
• /opt/gitlab/gitlabhq/node_modules
• /opt/gitlab/gitlabhq/public/asset

  to its build folder, so that the "bundle install", "yarn:install"
  and "gitlab:assets:compile" only have to install/build what changed
  compared to the installed GitLab version.
  Second the yarn cache at /usr/local/share/.cache/yarn/ is not cleared
  anymore saving about two minutes on my machine when yarn checks and
  downloads the needed dependencies.