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
@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.
