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| author | Stan Hu <stanhu@gmail.com> | 2015-06-19 07:19:56 -0700 |
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| committer | Stan Hu <stanhu@gmail.com> | 2015-06-19 07:23:45 -0700 |
| commit | 9c47d69788f8d4293d6345698d5b161d8f60039a (patch) | |
| tree | 1a9be754364fd4807e7855a4e94f50f03e1b0ecc /doc/raketasks | |
| parent | 74a6732c0dfc1416cad382203544d9c4d6246f58 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-9c47d69788f8d4293d6345698d5b161d8f60039a.tar.gz | |
Update maintenance documentation to explain no need to recompile asssets for omnibus installations
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/raketasks/maintenance.md | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/raketasks/maintenance.md b/doc/raketasks/maintenance.md index 2aca91d5371..69171cd1765 100644 --- a/doc/raketasks/maintenance.md +++ b/doc/raketasks/maintenance.md @@ -165,13 +165,18 @@ sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake cache:clear RAILS_ENV=production Sometimes during version upgrades you might end up with some wrong CSS or missing some icons. In that case, try to precompile the assets again. -For Omnibus-packages: -``` -sudo gitlab-rake assets:precompile -``` +Note that this only applies to source installations and does NOT apply to +omnibus packages. For installations from source: ``` cd /home/git/gitlab sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production ``` + +For omnibus versions, the unoptimized assets (JavaScript, CSS) are frozen at +the release of upstream GitLab. The omnibus version includes optimized versions +of those assets. Unless you are modifying the JavaScript / CSS code on your +production machine after installing the package, there should be no reason to redo +rake assets:precompile on the production machine. If you suspect that assets +have been corrupted, you should reinstall the omnibus package. |