[katello-devel] New Katello/Foreman Fedora packaging effort

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 13:44:52 UTC 2012


I would suggest pinging the Foreman list as well :)

-- bk

On 11/12/2012 06:27 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> bkabrda from BaseOS Fedora Ruby packaging team gave me an inch and I
> will take a mile in regard to packaging of Katello/Foreman for Fedora.
> :-)
>
> Current status is much better than half an year ago, credit goes to
> Mirek Suchy who worked on Koji and creating the comps for Fedora and
> RHEL. Now we know exactly, which packages are missing in Fedora and he
> also constantly working on them. But to get there, we need more hands.
> And now we have been offered *very* skilled hands, more than one pair I
> would say ;-)
>
> Therefore I have started the following (new) etherpad page:
>
> http://pad-katello.rhcloud.com/p/katello-fedora-packaging-effort
>
> to track the progress. In short, the plan is to go package by package
> and get it into Fedora. We will be removing these from our comps files
> for next Fedora versions.
>
> The ultimate goal is to have Foreman in Fedora pretty soon, Katello
> needs to wait a bit for getting Candlepin to be packaged for Fedora
> which is challenging task for sure. Maybe with introduction of Rails
> Plugins we would be able to remove Candlepin stuff from Katello and have
> a proper Fedora community release without Candlepin if it makes sense
> (no subscriptions and rhsm support of course).
>
> Thanks Bohuslav for offering help with this!
>
> LZ
>




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