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@@ -354,18 +354,6 @@ Packages can be unblocked if and only if:
This section documents how to do some of those upgrades and restarts
by hand.
## GitLab runner upgrades
Every month or so GitLab publishes a update to the
`gitlab-runner`
apt
package. The package is excluded from
`unattended-upgrades`
to avoid any
risk of interrupting long-running CI jobs (eg. large shadow sims).
The recommended procedure is to go through each CI machine one at a time,
pause all the runners on that single machine, ensure no long-running
shadow sims are being executed, and launch
`apt upgrade`
. If any regular
CI jobs are running, systemd will wait up to one hour for them to end,
then proceed with the package upgrade.
## cron.service
This is typically services that should be ran under
`systemd --user`
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