We've decided to make a stand alone release to the Katello client repositories to address address an issue and release a new feature.
Gofer-less Client Support For some time, users have been asking for a way to have errata and package applicability without having to run the full agent on their client machines. Further, while running the agent does provide for remote action such as package or errata installation, the remote execution plugin can also provide this functionality in an agent-less manner. To bring this full circle, we've decided to release goferless client packages into the 3.4 stream. Also, this should reduce memory consumption on individual clients. This new package is: katello-host-tools. Installing this package will not install the katello-agent package nor will it start goferd. However, any yum action will result in package profile and enabled repository updates back to the server ensuring up to date errata listing. For those wanting the previous behavior, simply install katello-agent as this will continue to function as it did before. For those upgrading, if you wish to continue to use katello-agent as is, simply upgrade like normal. If you wish to switch to agent-less mode, update the katello-agent and either stop goferd or remove the katello-agent package. Ensure that the katello-host-tools package remains installed. Broken Client Repositories During the time frame of the Katello 3.4 release, our RPM build server went down and had to be migrated. Part of that recovery required rebuilding and populating our build structure for RPMs. This resulted in broken client repositories for all but EL7 being released. Today's release fixes the EL6, EL5, Fedora 24 and Fedora 25 client repositories to put back the missing packages. Please let us know if you find any further irregularities with these repositories. -- Eric D. Helms Red Hat Engineering -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
