[katello-devel] where to get required katello gems

[Bryan Kearney]

On 07/03/2012 10:32 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Can we get all the gems we need into a single repo? I ask becuase it 
would be great to see Katello running on $SOME_OTHER_DISTRO and 
$SOME_OTHER_OS.

-- bk