[katello-devel] where to get required katello gems

[Lukas Zapletal]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:49:19PM +0200, Miroslav Suchy wrote:
> On 07/02/2012 02:42 PM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> >Exactly, I will add that Bundler itself with its Gemfile.lock should be
> >able to "lock" versions for us, but guys were seeing some issues in
> >regard to updating, so this is also the reason for our own repo.
> >
> >In future, we would like to build both Fedora and RHEL repositories from
> >Koji and start extracting those gems from RPMs inself - that would give
> >us three gem repos (for Fedoras and for RHEL). So devs should be able to
> >switch over from Fedora environment to RHEL easily.
> 
> I would suggest - If you need gem, which is not in Fedora, do not
> download pure gem file, but put it in kalpana-gems. Create spec file
> for that (this will make Review Request in Fedora later easier) and
> build it in Koji using HOWTO I sent today.
> I can even create yum repository with developers gem then.
> And if some of them appear in Fedora/RHEL you do not need to change
> anything and the transition will be flawless.
> You can even create meta-package "developer-setup", which will
> require all developers gem. So if you introduce new gem, everybody
> will get it during their "yum upgrade" and you even do not have to
> announce it.
>

Sounds like a plan, but that is extra work. But we could do it, would be
much nicer for sure.


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Later,

 Lukas "lzap" Zapletal
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