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

[Dana Walker]

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Dana Walker

She / Her / Hers

Software Engineer, Pulp Project

Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com>

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On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:18 PM Grant Gainey <ggainey at redhat.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 12:52 PM Kersom <kersom at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 12:33 PM Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 12:13 PM David Davis <daviddavis at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +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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