Trying to upgrade the #ChaostreffBern's #GitLab server from #CentOS 7 to #AlmaLinux 8 using leapp.

Man that thing is slow. And the messages are unhelpful. And then, after checking things for a very long time, it still exits with unexpected errors.

The VM isn't even especially messy...

Pretty sure it would be easier and quicker to just take a fresh AlmaLinux install, install GitLab and restore a backup. GitLab's backup is pretty amazing anyway.

But where would be the fun in that I ask :D

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@vimja any reason why not just using debian by itself? Serious question, any hardware related stuff or other nonfree not existing things?

@petrisch I use CentOS / AlmaLinux at work, so that's just what I am familiar with.

The version upgrade is really so much better on Debian. Only just Yesterday I upgraded the Chaostreff Bern's Jabber server from Debian 10 to Debian 11 and it was a breeze. No complaints there.

@petrisch That said, I have gone back to using Gentoo for almost all of my personal servers / VMs. I do enjoy the simplicity of it. And the familiarity since I use it on my laptops and my desktop anyway.

@vimja i see, makes total sense.
I procastinate my ubuntu instances for a switch to debian for years now. Shouldn't be that hard, but I'm too lazy...

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