Absolutely! This applies to Pulp 2 only. Our Pulp 3 development environment already gives you the option to pick between different Fedora versions, CentOS, CentOS + FIPS, Debian, etc.
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:44 AM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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