On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 5:15 AM Melanie Corr <mc...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey Mike! > Thank you for your reply! > > Ar Déar 8 Iúil 2021 ag 19:06, scríobh Mike DePaulo <mikedep...@redhat.com > >: > >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 12:29 PM Melanie Corr <mc...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >>> Hey Mike >>> >>> Ar Déar 8 Iúil 2021 ag 16:36, scríobh Mike DePaulo < >>> mikedep...@redhat.com>: >>> >>>> It looks like I haven't sent multiple previous minutes, so here is the >>>> last several: >>>> >>>> ## Jul 14 Agenda >>>> * 2 user requests for offline installation >>>> * My IRC explanation >>>> * For a disconnected install, you need to use RPMs (install >>>> from a yum a mirror of pulp) rather than installing from pip packages, and >>>> you need to add offline copies of repos to the system yourself beforehand. >>>> * >>>> https://pulp-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/roles/pulp_common/#role-variables-if-installing-from-rpms >>>> * set pulp_install_plugins to packages >>>> * Set pulp_pkg_repo to your network's copy of >>>> https://yum.theforeman.org/pulpcore/3.7/el{{ >>>> ansible_distribution_major_version }}/$basearch/ >>>> * Add the other repos like the centos software collection >>>> (that it tried to add) manually before running the installer. >>>> * You also need to modify the files under /etc/yum.repos.d/ >>>> that got added by the packages centos-release-scl-rh and centos-release-scl >>>> so that they are disabled, and your network's mirror is used instead. >>>> * I've been meaning to implement a better alternative to #4: >>>> https://pulp.plan.io/issues/8701 >>>> * Also, this requires CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 or CentOS 8 / RHEL 8. >>>> Because RPM packages only exist for them (and they are actually provided by >>>> our sister project Foreman, and they do not make every plugin available.) >>>> >>>> Will you add these steps also to the docs? >>> >>>> >>>> >>> Whoops, those are notes for the upcoming meeting next week. >> >> We will discuss those steps, and whether to document them, then. >> >> It's not straightforward because the Foreman RPMs are not officially for >> Pulp's use cases, only Foreman's single use case. In the past, we've >> avoided advertising the RPMs, and we do not have the URL in the installer >> itself (as the default variable value.) >> > > I get you. I think we've even talked about this before. My 2c: > I see that folks have asked and been directed several times to use the > Foreman RPMs. > If we are going to tell people how to do this once they ask, I think that > we could save some frustration by having docs for this, with a heavy caveat > that this is unofficial. > I think I should ask 2 questions of foreman, such as at the katello / pulp integration meeting: 1. Can we just include the default URL in pulp_installer itself rather than in its CI? 2. Can we put it in the docs, but list it as unofficial? -Mike > >> We should follow up with Foreman about this. >> >> -Mike >> >> -- >> >> Mike DePaulo >> >> He / Him / His >> >> Service Reliability Engineer, Pulp >> >> Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/> >> >> IM: mikedep333 >> >> GPG: 51745404 >> <https://www.redhat.com/> >> > > > -- > > Melanie Corr, RHCE > > Community Manager > > Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com> > > Remote, Ireland > > mc...@redhat.com > M: +353857774436 IM: mcorr > <https://www.redhat.com> > > -- Mike DePaulo He / Him / His Service Reliability Engineer, Pulp Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/> IM: mikedep333 GPG: 51745404 <https://www.redhat.com/>
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