[Pulp-dev] Proposal to move Pulp 2 dev environment to CentOS

[David Davis]

+1

David


On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:50 AM Daniel Alley <dalley at redhat.com> wrote:

> Absolutely!  This applies to Pulp 2 only.
>
> Our Pulp 3 development environment already gives you the option to pick
> between different Fedora versions, CentOS, CentOS + FIPS, Debian, etc.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:44 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 11:40 AM Daniel Alley <dalley at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Proposal:  The pulp/devel repository will install a CentOS 7 base box
>>> instead of a Fedora 28 one
>>>
>>> Rationale:
>>>
>>> * CentOS / RHEL is what our users are using. Using a different platform
>>> can result in different behavior in the development environment vs what
>>> users see -- this happened to me recently and wasted a couple of hours on
>>> both the Dev and QE sides
>>> * Fedora 28 is EOL and no longer receiving updates
>>> * Pulp 2 the custom dev installation script (pulp-dev.py) is broken on
>>> Fedora 29+ and I deemed it probably not worth the time or effort to fix
>>> * The RPM plugin is also broken on Fedora 29+ -- legacy "createrepo" was
>>> obsoleted entirely and as far as I can tell you can't import some of the
>>> libraries we are using from that package anymore
>>> * There's little point in tracking fast-moving Fedora changes at this
>>> point in Pulp 2's lifecycle anyways
>>>
>>> I have a branch that already works on CentOS.  It's a few patches behind
>>> but would take about 5 minutes to get cleaned up.
>>>
>>> Any objections?
>>>
>>
>> This sounds good to me. I hope we are still developing and testing on
>> Fedora for Pulp 3, though?
>>
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