Hello Everyone
I'm looking into the best way to have locked version repos for my CentOS systems. The systems are all set up with Chef and have a couple different recopies/roles. I'd like to have locked version repos for each role with tested RPMs. Then perhaps quarterly apply any updates. It would be nice to have something showing which updates are available for these locked repos. I'd also want to be able to just push single update RPMs into the repo (think heartbleed)
I've had a look at spacewalk and katello, but they seem a bit complicated. Katello seems closer to what I'm looking for with its versioned "Content Views", but I don't see how I could selectively include some new packages in it. It seems like it only handles making new snapshots of the underlying repos.
Maybe I'd be better off just setting up some repos on a web server and manually adding packages? I'd probably want a way to symlink packages to prevent disk bloat.
What are other people doing out there?
mrepo or reposync works fine with apache.
Eero 11.4.2015 2.45 ap. "Steven Barre" steven@realestatewebmasters.com kirjoitti:
Hello Everyone
I'm looking into the best way to have locked version repos for my CentOS systems. The systems are all set up with Chef and have a couple different recopies/roles. I'd like to have locked version repos for each role with tested RPMs. Then perhaps quarterly apply any updates. It would be nice to have something showing which updates are available for these locked repos. I'd also want to be able to just push single update RPMs into the repo (think heartbleed)
I've had a look at spacewalk and katello, but they seem a bit complicated. Katello seems closer to what I'm looking for with its versioned "Content Views", but I don't see how I could selectively include some new packages in it. It seems like it only handles making new snapshots of the underlying repos.
Maybe I'd be better off just setting up some repos on a web server and manually adding packages? I'd probably want a way to symlink packages to prevent disk bloat.
What are other people doing out there?
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Systems Administrator Real Estate Webmasters - 250-753-9893 ==================================================
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Thanks, but those seem to only be related to making a local mirror and keeping it in sync, not with handling separate repos for different systems, or helping you promote new packages through devel and production.
================================================= Steven Barre, RHCE steven@realestatewebmasters.com
Systems Administrator Real Estate Webmasters - 250-753-9893 ==================================================
On 2015-04-10 16:47, Eero Volotinen wrote:
mrepo or reposync works fine with apache.
Eero 11.4.2015 2.45 ap. "Steven Barre" steven@realestatewebmasters.com kirjoitti:
Hello Everyone
I'm looking into the best way to have locked version repos for my CentOS systems. The systems are all set up with Chef and have a couple different recopies/roles. I'd like to have locked version repos for each role with tested RPMs. Then perhaps quarterly apply any updates. It would be nice to have something showing which updates are available for these locked repos. I'd also want to be able to just push single update RPMs into the repo (think heartbleed)
I've had a look at spacewalk and katello, but they seem a bit complicated. Katello seems closer to what I'm looking for with its versioned "Content Views", but I don't see how I could selectively include some new packages in it. It seems like it only handles making new snapshots of the underlying repos.
Maybe I'd be better off just setting up some repos on a web server and manually adding packages? I'd probably want a way to symlink packages to prevent disk bloat.
What are other people doing out there?
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Steven Barre, RHCE steven@realestatewebmasters.com
Systems Administrator Real Estate Webmasters - 250-753-9893 ==================================================
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On April 10, 2015 7:45:00 PM EDT, Steven Barre steven@realestatewebmasters.com wrote:
Hello Everyone
I'm looking into the best way to have locked version repos for my CentOS systems. The systems are all set up with Chef and have a couple different recopies/roles. I'd like to have locked version repos for each role with tested RPMs. Then perhaps quarterly apply any updates. It would be nice to have something showing which updates are available for
these locked repos. I'd also want to be able to just push single update
RPMs into the repo (think heartbleed)
I've had a look at spacewalk and katello, but they seem a bit complicated. Katello seems closer to what I'm looking for with its versioned "Content Views", but I don't see how I could selectively include some new packages in it. It seems like it only handles making new snapshots of the underlying repos.
Maybe I'd be better off just setting up some repos on a web server and manually adding packages? I'd probably want a way to symlink packages to prevent disk bloat.
What are other people doing out there?
Check out Pulp (pulpproject.org). Its the underlying technology used in the next version of Red Hat Satellite, and it has the features you describe.
Katello seems to be a web front end for Pulp (and the upstream for the new RH Satellite server). It seems to lack some of the power of using just Pulp.
Do you have any directions on how to achieve what I want with Pulp? Looks like I'd first make a repo to sync all the stuff I want, then make secondary repos and copy from the main into them to make my locked repos.
https://pulp.readthedocs.org/en/2.6-release/user-guide/admin-client/reposito...
Is there any way to diff two repos to see whats new?
================================================= Steven Barre, RHCE steven@realestatewebmasters.com
Systems Administrator Real Estate Webmasters - 250-753-9893 ==================================================
On 2015-04-10 19:07, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On April 10, 2015 7:45:00 PM EDT, Steven Barre steven@realestatewebmasters.com wrote:
Hello Everyone
I'm looking into the best way to have locked version repos for my CentOS systems. The systems are all set up with Chef and have a couple different recopies/roles. I'd like to have locked version repos for each role with tested RPMs. Then perhaps quarterly apply any updates. It would be nice to have something showing which updates are available for
these locked repos. I'd also want to be able to just push single update
RPMs into the repo (think heartbleed)
I've had a look at spacewalk and katello, but they seem a bit complicated. Katello seems closer to what I'm looking for with its versioned "Content Views", but I don't see how I could selectively include some new packages in it. It seems like it only handles making new snapshots of the underlying repos.
Maybe I'd be better off just setting up some repos on a web server and manually adding packages? I'd probably want a way to symlink packages to prevent disk bloat.
What are other people doing out there?
Check out Pulp (pulpproject.org). Its the underlying technology used in the next version of Red Hat Satellite, and it has the features you describe.
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