On 04/18/2017 03:16 PM, David Davis wrote:
> Comments inline.
> 
> David
> 
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Dennis Kliban <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Do we want to provide a tool for migrating from Pulp 2 to 3? If yes, then 
> ...
> 
>     Would the tool be able to migrate repository definitions and require the 
> user to sync and upload content
>     to restore /var/lib/pulp/content?
> 
> 
> Question: is the structure of /var/lib/pulp/content changing in Pulp 3? If 
> not, that might simplify the
> migration process.

No changes in /var/lib/pulp/content for pulp3.

> 
>  
> 
>     Would this tool support installing Pulp 3 along side Pulp 2 and 
> performing a migration of database and
>     /var/lib/pulp/content?
> 
> 
> I think we should allow for at least part of the installation process to be 
> performed while Pulp 2 is running.
> We had a very painful process I think it was with Pulp 2.8 where users had to 
> take their katello installations
> offline for hours or sometimes days. We should try to avoid that as much as 
> possible by allowing part of the
> install to run while Pulp is running.

+1

> 
>  
> 
>     Would this tool be able to accept a mongodump of Pulp 2 MongoDB and a 
> path to a copy of Pulp 2's
>     /var/lib/pulp directory and use that information to populate Pulp 3?
> 
> 
> 
> I would say:
> 
> - For the mongo data, use whatever is set in pulp’s config but allow users to 
> override it and specify a mongo
> connection or mongodump.
> - For the pulp filesystem content, use /var/lib/pulp but allow users to 
> override this too.
> 
>  
> 
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