On Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 11:40 AM Daniel Alley <dal...@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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