improve update procedure

Allow the omnibus installation mechanism to be able to update incrementally.

For example: my current version is 8.17 The last released version is 9.2.1

apt-get upgrade should be able to get me to the latest released version

mentioned in issue #31350 (closed)

That is what the package actually does. Can you give us specific errors that you had?

Max Raab mentioned in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/31350 the following:

For the most of the updates you don't have to do anything else than a simple apt-get update && apt-get install gitlab-ce. But of course, the update process assumes you are upgrading from the latest version. If not, you have to check if you have to do things manually.

Why not simply update more often (after each realase)? It takes only 3 minutes and is much less error-prone.

So I understand that I can not update from 8.17 to 9.2.1 directly using a simple apt-get upgrade

is this correct?

No.

Can you provide the errors you had on upgrade so we can improve the update procedure?

moved to omnibus-gitlab#2276 (closed)