Gentoo Packages

Upstream newly added systemd units (see the lib/support/systemd/ folder on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/tree/14-5-stable/ or under /opt/gitlab/gitlab/ after installing version 14.5.0) and I took the opportunity to compare and review the systemd units this ebuild carried along so far.

The main changes are

• New (and I think better) way to define the dependencies. Now, when you (re)start gitlab.target it waits until all subservices are completely up and ready. So don't be impatient: On my machine it lasts about 2 minutes. It is gitlab-puma.service causing this delay and previously gitlab.target returned immediately after the main service binary of gitlab-puma.service had been executed. But even then one had to wait for puma before GitLab was responsive.
• Added a gitlab.slice unit. See 'man systemd.slice' and 'man systemd.resource-control' for information on slice units. You now can check the resource usage of the "gitlab.slice" Control Group by executing systemd-cgtop

For the OpenRC init files I only made one little but crucial change: I removed "postgresql" from the "use ..." clause in the "depend()" function in order to harmonize the default setup for both the Systemd and the OpenRC case.

Now this ebuild assumes that you run the Postgres server on a different machine. If you run it on the same machine as GitLab add the dependency A) Systemd case

  systemctl edit gitlab-puma.service
In the editor that opens, add the following and save the file:
  [Unit]
  Wants=postgresql.service
  After=postgresql.service

  systemctl edit gitlab-sidekiq.service
In the editor that opens, add the following and save the file:
  [Unit]
  Wants=postgresql.service
  After=postgresql.service

B) OpenRC case

Add "postgresql" to the "use ..." clause in the "depend()" function
in /etc/init.d/gitlab (see the comment there)."