On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Justin Sherrill <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Brian Bouterse <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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?



>
> 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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