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It is recommended to installed Gitlab as a Omnibus package. Packages are available for the popular deb and rpm formats. Packages are available here. There is a also script that automates installation. There are the following recent packages available for CentOS users:

  • gitlab-ee-8.5.0-ee.1.el6.x86_64.rpm # Enterprise Linux 6.0 (CentOS, RedHat, Amazon Linux)
  • gitlab-ee-8.5.0-ee.0.el6.x86_64.rpm # See above
  • gitlab-ee-8.5.0-ee.1.el7.x86_64.rpm # Enterprise Linux 7.0 (CentOS, RedHat, Amazon Linux)
  • gitlab-ee-8.5.0-ee.0.el7.x86_64.rpm # See above

What is the difference between 0.el6 and 1.el6?

I'm running CentOS release 6.7 (Final) with a kernel release Linux 2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64. Should I choose gitlab-ee-8.5.0-ee.1.el6.x86_64.rpm?

idobr
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To understand RPM versioning it's helpful to look at how yum treats things. When I install the GitLab package repository and run yum info gitlab-ee --showduplicates I get the following output (shortened):

    Name        : gitlab-ee
    Arch        : x86_64
    Version     : 8.5.0
    Release     : ee.0.el7
    Size        : 282 M
    Repo        : gitlab_gitlab-ee/x86_64
    Summary     : GitLab Enterprise Edition and GitLab CI (including NGINX, Postgres, Redis)
    URL         : https://about.gitlab.com/
    License     : unknown
    Description : GitLab Enterprise Edition and GitLab CI (including NGINX, Postgres, Redis)

    Name        : gitlab-ee
    Arch        : x86_64
    Version     : 8.5.0
    Release     : ee.1.el7
    Size        : 282 M
    Repo        : gitlab_gitlab-ee/x86_64
    Summary     : GitLab Enterprise Edition and GitLab CI (including NGINX, Postgres, Redis)
    URL         : https://about.gitlab.com/
    License     : unknown
    Description : GitLab Enterprise Edition and GitLab CI (including NGINX, Postgres, Redis)

Notice the Release value for each. yum outputs the newest package at the bottom and you can see the bottom Release value is ee.1.el7. yum uses the combination of version and release to determine the newest package to install. In this case we (GitLab) had some issue in the ee.0.el7 package but not in the GitLab code itself so we repackaged it as ee.1.el7. The actual GitLab version is the same (8.5.0).

I hope this helps explain RPM versioning. I highly recommend adding the YUM repos

Drew Blessing
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  • Thanks for the explanation. This question had occurred, because it is mentioned in the upgrade page: # CentOS: sudo rpm -Uvh gitlab-x.x.x_xxx.rpm [source](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc/update/README.md#updating-from-gitlab-66-and-higher-to-the-latest-version). I will try to use repository as you suggested following this [manual](https://about.gitlab.com/upgrade-to-package-repository/#centos) – idobr Feb 23 '16 at 20:57