[DRE-maint] Bug#977701: gitlab: Missing assets, breaking some functionalities

[Pirate Praveen]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 6:55 pm, Pirate Praveen 
<praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
> I found another error while trying to update to gitlab 13.5 which I 
> think could be an issue here.
> 
> You can try to build from master-13.5 branch of gitlab. Or probably 
> try this patch in master branch or current version in unstable (or I 
> will get to trying it eventually).
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/gitlab/-/blob/f9af389e35d0cadfa6c2e95387d09ec97418397d/debian/patches/0740-use-packaged-modules.patch#L43
> ie, add 'node_modules' as first entry in config/webpack.config.js 
> resolve and resolveLoader options.
> 
> You can modify /usr/share/gitlab/config/webpack.config.js and run 
> webpack directly from /usr/share/gitlab directory.
> 
> runuser -u ${gitlab_user} -- sh -c 'NODE_ENV="production" 
> NODE_PATH="node_modules" NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=4096" 
> webpack --config config/webpack.config.js'
> 
> with gitlab_user variable set to your gitlab user.

I tried the same and this does not fix the bug either.