Minor annoyances while installing GitLab

I’ve installed GitLab on my server, and it hasn’t exactly been a smooth ride. So here goes, what went wrong in my case — and how to fix it. First off, I should mention the server is a LXC container running Debian 9 (Stretch) 64bits. Prerequisites install failures Following along the GitLab install guide, the […]

OpenSSL 1.1.0 and the plague of implicit function declarations

I’m currently rebuilding my Gentoo packages after switching to the (hard-masked) dev-libs/openssl-1.1.0g. The OpenSSL 1.1.0 branch has been available for a while now, and brings with it a lot of sane-looking changes to the OpenSSL API, like opaque structures that don’t let anyone go poking around their insides, and less kludgy handling of library initialization, […]