[Pulp-list] RHEL repo version lock using pulp

[Kodiak Firesmith]

It will be security and bugfix updates only if you sync the specific 7.4
repos.  Beware that 7.4 support ends July and after that point to get core
security updates you'd need to buy EUS licensing and sync the 7.4-EUS
channels.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:46 PM Venkataramana Bora <venkbora at in.ibm.com>
wrote:

> Thanks a lot Aaron and Kodak for your quick reply. I will post here after
> trying these steps. By following this , Hope we still have latest RHEL7.4
> security updates only using a that Pulp repo. Please let us know if there
> is any further useful info.
>
> Once again Thank you and Pulp team.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Venkataramana Bora
> IBM Visakha Hills
> Visakhapatnam – 530 045, India
>
> [image: Inactive hide details for "aaron.t.wyllie" ---01/11/2019 10:39:36
> PM---Replied earlier from my work address but I think it may]"aaron.t.wyllie"
> ---01/11/2019 10:39:36 PM---Replied earlier from my work address but I
> think it may be blocked.  Anyways ... You could do what K
>
> From: "aaron.t.wyllie" <aaron.t.wyllie at gmail.com>
> To: Kodiak Firesmith <kfiresmith at gmail.com>, Venkataramana Bora <
> venkbora at in.ibm.com>
> Cc: Donal Keane <donal.keane at ie.ibm.com>, pulp-list <pulp-list at redhat.com>
> Date: 01/11/2019 10:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] RHEL repo version lock using pulp
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Replied earlier from my work address but I think it may be blocked.
> Anyways ...
>
> You could do what Kodiak suggests but that will involve syncing another
> set of repositories.
>
> An alternative would be to create a content view pinned to the day before
> RHEL 7.5 was released; 04/09/2018 as RHEL 7.5 was released 04/10/2018. Do
> that for all required RHEL 7 repositories and add them to a CCV and call it
> done.
>
> You could also look at subscription-manager on the managed client-side and
> configure the pin-to-release to 7.4 and see how that works. I've never done
> that but mainly because I always worry someone might come behind me and
> unset it ...
>
> Aaron Wyllie
> aaron.t.wyllie at gmail.com
> +1.904.422.1545 (M)
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Kodiak Firesmith <kfiresmith at gmail.com>
> Date: 1/11/19 11:41 AM (GMT-05:00)
> To: Venkataramana Bora <venkbora at in.ibm.com>
> Cc: Donal Keane <donal.keane at ie.ibm.com>, pulp-list <pulp-list at redhat.com>
>
> Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] RHEL repo version lock using pulp
>
> To lock to 7.4, you'd want to sync 7.4 CDN channels to dedicated 7.4 Pulp
> repos. Use 'rct cat-cert' to look for 7.4 specific channels to mirror.
> - Kodiak
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:02 AM Venkataramana Bora <*venkbora at in.ibm.com*
> <venkbora at in.ibm.com>> wrote:
>
>    Hi Team, would like to know, on Pulp servers is there any possibility
>    to create a specific version (say RHEL 7.4) only repository using
>    *cdn.redhat.com* <http://cdn.redhat.com> feed? Right now we are using
>    below Redhat 7 feeds our pulp servers , but that is updating to latest
>    RHEL7.6 from 7.4 We have a requirement now where we need to have RHEL7.4
>    repo that should not be updated to latest RHEL7.x but we like to have
>    latest RHEL7.4 security updates only using a that Pulp repo. Kindly please
>    let us know if there is any possibility of specific version lock pulp repo
>    or not. Thanks a lot in advance !
>
>    Pulp_repo rhel-7-server-rpms-x86_64 feed: '
>    *https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os*
>    <https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os>'.
>    pulp_repo rhel-7-server-extras-rpms-x86_64 feed:
>    *'https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/extras/os'*
>    <https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/extras/os'>
>    pulp_repo rhel-7-server-optional-rpms-x86_64 feed:'
>    *https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/optional/os*
>    <https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/optional/os>
>    '
>
>
>    Our Pulp slave servers are with version pulp-server-2.11.2-1.el6 and
>    master Pulp server is 2.16.
>
>
>
>
>    Sincerely,
>    Venkataramana Bora
>    IBM Visakha Hills
>    Visakhapatnam – 530 045, India
>
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