Delivering Pulp z-stream bits to Katello users quicker

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A Katello user visited the #pulp-dev channel who was affected by a bug in Pulp 2.13.2 that was fixed in Pulp 2.13.4. The only fix for the user is for Katello to upgrade the version it is distributing from 2.13.2 -> 2.13.4.

What if Pulp bits were delivered to Katello users directly from the Pulp repos? For the 2.13.z for example that would be these repos [0]. You can lock onto a specific x.y version of Pulp and just have clients receive z-stream Pulp releases as they become available.

What do Katello devs think about a change like this?
What would need to happen to make a change like this?

[0]: https://repos.fedorapeople.org/pulp/pulp/stable/2.13/

-Brian
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A Katello user visited the #pulp-dev channel who was affected by a bug in
Pulp 2.13.2 that was fixed in Pulp 2.13.4. The only fix for the user is for
Katello to upgrade the version it is distributing from 2.13.2 -> 2.13.4.

What if Pulp bits were delivered to Katello users directly from the Pulp
repos? For the 2.13.z for example that would be these repos [0]. You can
lock onto a specific x.y version of Pulp and just have clients receive
z-stream Pulp releases as they become available.

What do Katello devs think about a change like this?

+1 to this from myself. It reduces our efforts and gets users fixes faster. In the past pulp was not reliable to do this, but the past 5 or so 2.Y releases have been stable enough and I do not believe we've seen an issue that would have held us back from including a z-release.

What would need to happen to make a change like this?

We'd need to:

* update
to point to a specific release
* update documentation around updating pulp
https://theforeman.org/plugins/katello/developers.html#upgrading-pulp * update tool belt: https://github.com/theforeman/tool_belt

i'd recommend we file a katello issue to track these 3 items if there are no objections

Justin


··· On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Brian Bouterse <bbouters@redhat.com> wrote:


[0]: https://repos.fedorapeople.org/pulp/pulp/stable/2.13/

-Brian

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A Katello user visited the #pulp-dev channel who was affected by a bug in
Pulp 2.13.2 that was fixed in Pulp 2.13.4. The only fix for the user is for
Katello to upgrade the version it is distributing from 2.13.2 -> 2.13.4.

What if Pulp bits were delivered to Katello users directly from the Pulp
repos? For the 2.13.z for example that would be these repos [0]. You can
lock onto a specific x.y version of Pulp and just have clients receive
z-stream Pulp releases as they become available.

What do Katello devs think about a change like this?

+1 to this from myself. It reduces our efforts and gets users fixes
faster. In the past pulp was not reliable to do this, but the past 5 or so
2.Y releases have been stable enough and I do not believe we've seen an
issue that would have held us back from including a z-release.

+1

I want to clarify that we would be setting this up for and communicating as clearly as we can that we support this for z-stream updates only and that for a 2.Y release we would be performing our usual testing and stack upgrades? Or is the suggestion to support the 2.Y line for any installation from 3.5+ forward?


··· On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Justin Sherrill <jlsherrill@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Brian Bouterse <bbouters@redhat.com> > wrote:



What would need to happen to make a change like this?

We'd need to:

* update https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-packaging/blob/rpm/
develop/katello/katello-repos/katello.repo#L12-L17 to point to a
specific release
* update documentation around updating pulp https://theforeman.org/
plugins/katello/developers.html#upgrading-pulp
* update tool belt: https://github.com/theforeman/tool_belt

i'd recommend we file a katello issue to track these 3 items if there are
no objections

Justin

[0]: https://repos.fedorapeople.org/pulp/pulp/stable/2.13/

-Brian

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Eric D. Helms
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Given there has been no objections, the following plan will be put in place for nightlies and 3.6:

  • Change katello-repos to point to the Pulp repository being used
  • Remove the pulp comps from foreman-packaging
  • Update Forklift roles for katello repository
  • Remove Pulp repositories from Katello’s repository hosting for 3.6 and nightly

Thanks,
Eric

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