[Pulp-list] how does this agent commnication works ?

[Brian Bouterse]

Hi DJ, I'm not an expert on these things, but I'll reply in case its helpful. See inline.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "joshi dhaval" <d_joshi84 at yahoo.com>
> To: pulp-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 2:08:30 PM
> Subject: [Pulp-list] how does this agent commnication works ?
> 
> 
>  
>  Hello,
>  
> 
>  want to know how this gofer communicate with pulp server?
>  
>  there is an issue, when i
>  install some package and if package installation fails, then
>  i upload different package with higher version in repository
>  and try to install that one, the package installation fails
>  and i have to run "yum clean all" on client to be
>  able to install new package.
>  
>  How do i add it to pulp-admin so i can run it
>  from remote command ?
I don't believe Pulp supports this type of remote command. I do believe that eventually the metadata will become so old that Yum will decide to refetch the metadata. This will have a similar effect to what "yum clean all" in that it throws away the old metadata and fetches it new. The pulp-admin commands don't have a way to force consumers to perform a "yum clean all" that I know of.
>  
>  
>  2) is there anyway to install specific version
>  of package ?
There is a way to do this with yum directly. See the example [0]. The "automatically fetch the latest" is a Yum behavior so you can use Yum on the consumers directly to change which version gets installed if you don't want the latest of a given package. Pulp does not provide a way for you to specify this behavior through Pulp. You should use yum directly for this.

[0]:  https://www.zulius.com/how-to/yum-install-specific-package-version/
>  
>  for example i
>  have package-1.1-1.rpm and package-1.2-1.rpm in a
>  repository, there is no way using which i can install 1.1-1,
>  it always installs 1.2-1 ... :(
>  
>  Regards,
>  DJ
>  
> 
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