Gentoo Packages

Since March 2022 there is a dev-util/gitlab-runner ebuild in the gentoo tree accompanied by acct-group/gitlab-runner and acct-user/gitlab-runner making the package dev-util/gitlab-runner-bin of this overlay kind of obsolete and making acct-user/gitlab-runner of this overlay really obsolete.

So

• acct-user/gitlab-runner of this overlay was removed
• a blocking deoendency was added to all dev-util/gitlab-runner-bin ebuilds to prohibit a parallel installation with dev-util/gitlab-runner

Although dev-util/gitlab-runner compiles in just a few minutes I'll keep the dev-util/gitlab-runner-bin package in the overlay.

For those who want to switch to dev-util/gitlab-runner here how I did it:

$ emerge gitlab-runner

This told me

"dev-util/gitlab-runner" is soft blocking dev-util/gitlab-runner-bin-15.4.0

so I did a backup of /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml (just to be sure; shouldn't be neccessary), unmerged dev-util/gitlab-runner-bin and installed the new package:

$ emerge -C gitlab-runner-bin
$ emerge gitlab-runner

On my machine acct-user/gitlab-runner-0 from the overlay was already replaced by acct-user/gitlab-runner-1 from the portage tree but the gitlab-runner user still had the UID 125 (from the overlay) instead of the UID 510 (as the portage tree package would use it). So I did:

$ systemctl stop gitlab-runner.service
$ usermod -u 510 gitlab-runner

That already changed ownership in /var/lib/gitlab-runner which is the HOME of the gitlab-runner user.

$ chown gitlab-runner:gitlab-runner /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml
$ chown gitlab-runner:gitlab-runner /var/log/gitlab-runner/

As I'm using systemd there were no files in /var/log/gitlab-runner/. If you use the init.d Script you may have to chown the log files therein too. Restart the service:

$ systemctl start gitlab-runner.service