[katello-devel] where to get required katello gems

[Tom McKay]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Kearney" <bkearney at redhat.com>
> To: katello-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 8:23:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] where to get required katello gems
> 
> On 07/16/2012 07:26 AM, Petr Chalupa wrote:
> > I have a counter proposal which is more from Ruby world then the
> > solution described in previous emails.
> >
> > - remove source 'http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/katello/gems/'
> > and
> > other sources from Gemfile
> > - store all needed gems in vendor/cache as .gem files (directly in
> > katello master or a git-submodule) (all versions for f16 and RHEL)
> > - install gems with bundle install (without source specified
> > bundler
> > picks up gems from vendor/cache)
> >
> > Advantages:
> > - you can install all required gems on any platform: fedora, ubuntu
> > or
> > osx (which I need)
> > - faster installation
> > - you can switch between fedora/RHEL env by replacing Gemfile.lock
> > (lets
> > say we would have Gemfile.lock.f16 and Gemfile.lock.rhel in our git
> > for
> > this purpose)
> > - easy access to and updates of gem versions
> > - you can include gems with CVE patches from fedora, everybody
> > would
> > have correct versions of gems (which I currently don't have)
> >
> > Disadvantages
> > - rubygem-* rpms are not being correctly packed. The included .gem
> > files
> > are not containing CVE patches. We would need to come up with a
> > workaround to build updated .gem files or fix the issue. If this is
> > fixed, all you have to do to store gems in vendor/cache is 'bundle
> > package' [1].
> > - other possible problems i do not see, any ideas?
> >
> > [1] http://gembundler.com/bundle_package.html
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Petr
> >
> 
> Could we do this model for DEV, and then work on proper packaging for
> each distro? I think it would help alot if we could be more friendly
> to
> DEVs.
> 
> -- bk
> 
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I said half jokingly on IRC the other day that we should have a 'katello-configure --developer' which would install everything for use with a git checkout. This would make it completely simple for anyone to get up and going with a dev setup. Perhaps they would just point to the git checkout:

% katello-configure --developer /home/dudette/katello