Title: Gitaly is slotted now Author: Horst Prote Posted: 2020-12-09 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: dev-vcs/gitlab-gitaly The gitlab-gitaly package is now slotted as the gitlabhq itself. On slot changing upgrades of gitlaghq one now can run the old gitlabhq--gitaly.service (1) and do the bundle exec rake gitlab:backup:create RAILS_ENV=production backup (as recommended before upgrading gitlabhq) just before the "emerge --config" of gitlabhq. Without a slotted gitaly the "emerge -u gitlabhq" had at this point already merged the new gitaly version which sometimes failed to run the backup command. --- (1) As the gitaly service file is installed by the gitlabhq ebuild there already were two service files on slot changing upgrades: gitlabhq--gitaly.service gitlabhq--gitaly.service but both would run the same, the new version of gitaly.