The time has come for me to revisit my local dev-lab, one of the things I'd like to do first is update the software versions of the tools I use. First tool is - Gitlab

When I started my lab, I installed Gitlab CE from bitnami, version 11. The current version (as of April 2020) is version 12.

The upgrade process seems quite simple

  • sudo apt update
  • sudo apt install gitlab-ce

Let's see what's going to break :)

The first problem I encountered is the expired PUBKEY
(The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY).
Fix is quite simple :

  • curl --silent https://packages.gitlab.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

Now update should work. When I run install, I got a notification that I', trying to upgrade from major version 11 to major version 12, and I first have to upgrade to version 11.11 ...

Now - how do I install this version? First I have to find the specific version number

  • apt-cache madison gitlab-ce and because there are a lot of version and I only care about 11.11, I will pipe it to grep | grep 11.11
  • I found version 11.11.8-ce.0
  • Now to install the specific verion I run sudo apt install gitlab-ce=11.11.8-ce.0

If everything worked fine, now it's time to check if the gitlab server behaves properly - open the UI, pull and push some code.

Everything was fine, so I can proceed with latest version instalation

  • sudo apt install gitlab-ce

That's it! :)

Links:

How to update GitLab repository signing key
GitLab repository signing key was updated at the beginning of the April, so you can get an error during the signature verification.
Milosz Galazka