We are currently testing the use of pulp consumer for centralized package installation across our EL 5/6/7 servers and hope to use it in production in the near future.
Will the pulp consumer packages (and deps) be available still for el6 and even el5? On 2016-11-17 08:20, Michael Hrivnak wrote: > We need your input on when to stop making builds of Pulp for el6. > > Running Pulp on el6, which uses Python 2.6, has been getting more difficult > over time. Many libraries we depend on have dropped support for Python 2.6, > which exacerbates the usual challenge of making dependencies available on an > aging platform. > > The latest news is that epel6 will remove their Django package, Django14. It > has multiple CVEs (none of which we think affect Pulp) and is unsupported > upstream. There is no supported version of Django that runs on Python 2.6. > Thus epel has decided to remove this package from epel6 some time between Jan > 31 and March 31 of 2017. Once that happens, Pulp will not be installable on > el6 unless you provide that package some other way. > > As a workaround, el6 installation could theoretically continue after Django14 > is removed by manually installing the rpm, which is accessible from the EPEL > build system. But the dev team does not want to take responsibility for > supporting that package; thus we need to phase out support for Pulp on el6. > > We want to make the transition off of el6 as smooth as it reasonably can be, > so please give us some feedback. Here are two options to start the > conversation: > > 1. Make 2.11 the last Pulp release to have el6 packages. All 2.11.z releases > would get el6 support. 2.12 would have el7 and Fedora packages only. > > 2. Make el6 builds available until the day Django14 gets removed from epel6. > On that day, Pulp on el6 would become unsupported and builds would stop. > > Have any other ideas, or feedback on those? > > Thanks for your input, > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Pulp-list mailing list > Pulp-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list
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