[Pulp-list] Exclude packages or package groups from repo sync

Mike McCune mmccune at redhat.com
Tue Oct 22 00:25:02 UTC 2013


I don't think any work has been done on it but more comments and 
justifications here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004001

will help prioritize and capture the requirements for the feature

On 10/15/2013 09:22 AM, Christina Plummer wrote:
> Any updates on this one?  I am also looking for a way to avoid syncing
> the source RPMs from the Oracle Linux upstream repo, as Brian mentioned.
>
> As a workaround, I tried removing the SRPMs from my repo following the
> sync using " pulp-admin rpm repo remove srpm --repo-id=ol5-x86_64 -a
> 20130901", but that had no effect (even though " pulp-admin rpm repo
> content srpm --repo-id=ol5-x86_64 -a 20130901 " showed me the packages).
>
> Thanks,
> Christina
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Brian Lee <brian_lee1 at jabil.com
> <mailto:brian_lee1 at jabil.com>> wrote:
>
>     I appreciate the responses. Here are some use cases that I can imagine.
>
>     - Users that don't require X Windows for any of their Linux systems
>     would prefer not to sync anything that depends on X Windows. These
>     could be excluded/blacklisted based on package names, simple pattern
>     matching, regex, or yum package groups.
>
>     - Some repositories, such as OracleLinux
>     <http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/x86_64/>
>     include the *.src.rpm in the same repo directory, which makes
>     syncing the entire repository *much* larger.
>
>     - Users that only want to sync a select few packages from a
>     repository, and exclude the rest.
>
>     Thanks again,
>     Brian
>
>
>     On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Christina Plummer
>     <cplummer at gmail.com <mailto:cplummer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I am interested in this as well.  I had read an interesting
>         USENIX paper[1] and slidedeck[2] last year about using Pulp to
>         manage yum repositories for enterprise environments, and had
>         hoped to implement something similar.  However, it appears that
>         the features they depend on were only available in Pulp v1.
>
>         The basic workflow is something like this:
>         1) Sync all updates from upstream to "live" repo (probably daily)
>         2) Sync all "non-impactful" updates from "live" (filter out
>         kernel and any other pkgs that we identify as needing more
>         testing) to "unstable" repo (probably weekly - so pkgs are 1
>         week old before they appear)
>         3) Sync all "non-impactful" updates from "unstable" after they
>         have been there for a certain time period (weekly or monthly) to
>         "stable" repo
>         4) Don't point any servers to the "live" repo
>         5) Point non-production servers to "unstable" repo
>         6) Point production servers to "stable" repo
>         7) Manually promote "impactful" packages to "unstable" for testing
>         8) Manually promote "impactful" packages to "stable" after
>         having been tested
>
>         As best I can tell, the solution described in the paper is based
>         on "Sync filters", which don't seem to be available in Pulp v2.
>           So I think the only way to implement something like this would
>         be to use the "copy" feature, which I don't believe can be
>         scheduled.
>
>         Is it possible to implement this sort of workflow in Pulp v2?
>
>         Christina
>
>         [1]
>         https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa11/tech/full_papers/Pierre.pdf
>         [2]
>         https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa11/tech/slides/pierre.pdf
>
>
>         On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Randy Barlow
>         <rbarlow at redhat.com <mailto:rbarlow at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>             On Tue 06 Aug 2013 10:04:48 AM EDT, Brian Lee wrote:
>             > I believe in older versions of Pulp you could exclude certain packages
>             > from being synced locally. However, I haven't encountered the method
>             > for this in Pulp 2.1. To conserve disk space, it would be nice if we
>             > could exclude packages that match a regex pattern or belong to a
>             > package group. Let me know if I've just missed this option in the
>             > documentation or if it's not currently supported.
>
>             Hi Brian,
>
>             We don't currently support this feature, but we have talked
>             about it
>             before and we are interested in the possibility of
>             supporting something
>             like this. It would be interesting to use to know your use
>             case, as
>             there is some difficulty in coming up with a nice way to
>             express what
>             should be included or excluded from the CLI. You mention package
>             groups, which makes me also think of package categories.
>             Thanks for the
>             suggestion!
>
>
>
>
>
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