[Pulp-list] how does this agent commnication works ?

[Brian Bouterse]

The suggestion to use yum for your use case is a workaround. Regarding improving Pulp's features, if a Pulp user believes there is a feature missing, then the first step is to file a feature request. Would you be willing to fill out a ticket in the bug tracker [0]? Put [RFE] at the beginning of the title so we know its a feature request.

Regarding the yum clean strangeness with uploaded units, I'm not sure what the root cause is for that. Would you be willing to file a separate bug on that describing the issue? You can also do that here [0].

[0]:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Pulp

-Brian

----- Original Message -----
> From: "joshi dhaval" <d_joshi84 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Brian Bouterse" <bbouters at redhat.com>
> Cc: pulp-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:13:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] how does this agent commnication works ?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> if i can use "yum install" to install specific version of package then i
> should be able to use "pulp-admin", if i want to use "yum install" why i
> would use PULP at all? :)
> 
> i can simply create repos using "createrepo" and bind them using scripts and
> use "yum install" ...
> 
> yum clean is bit odd .. every time i upload package to repository i have to
> run yum clean on client to be able to make that package visibile in yum ..
> 
> Regards,
> DJ
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> On Tue, 10/21/14, Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>  Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] how does this agent commnication works ?
>  To: "joshi dhaval" <d_joshi84 at yahoo.com>
>  Cc: pulp-list at redhat.com
>  Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 12:01 AM
>  
>  Hi DJ, I'm not an
>  expert on these things, but I'll reply in case its
>  helpful. See inline.
>  
>  -----
>  Original Message -----
>  > From:
>  "joshi dhaval" <d_joshi84 at yahoo.com>
>  > To: pulp-list at redhat.com
>  > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 2:08:30
>  PM
>  > Subject: [Pulp-list] how does this
>  agent commnication works ?
>  > 
>  > 
>  >  
>  >  Hello,
>  >  
>  > 
>  >  want to know how
>  this gofer communicate with pulp server?
>  >  
>  >  there is an
>  issue, when i
>  >  install some package
>  and if package installation fails, then
>  >  i upload different package with higher
>  version in repository
>  >  and try to
>  install that one, the package installation fails
>  >  and i have to run "yum clean
>  all" on client to be
>  >  able to
>  install new package.
>  >  
>  >  How do i add it to pulp-admin so i can
>  run it
>  >  from remote command ?
>  I don't believe Pulp supports this type of
>  remote command. I do believe that eventually the metadata
>  will become so old that Yum will decide to refetch the
>  metadata. This will have a similar effect to what "yum
>  clean all" in that it throws away the old metadata and
>  fetches it new. The pulp-admin commands don't have a way
>  to force consumers to perform a "yum clean all"
>  that I know of.
>  >  
>  >  
>  >  2) is there
>  anyway to install specific version
>  >  of
>  package ?
>  There is a way to do this with yum
>  directly. See the example [0]. The "automatically fetch
>  the latest" is a Yum behavior so you can use Yum on the
>  consumers directly to change which version gets installed if
>  you don't want the latest of a given package. Pulp does
>  not provide a way for you to specify this behavior through
>  Pulp. You should use yum directly for this.
>  
>  [0]:  https://www.zulius.com/how-to/yum-install-specific-package-version/
>  >  
>  >  for example i
>  >  have package-1.1-1.rpm and
>  package-1.2-1.rpm in a
>  >  repository,
>  there is no way using which i can install 1.1-1,
>  >  it always installs 1.2-1 ... :(
>  >  
>  >  Regards,
>  >  DJ
>  >  
>  > 
>  >
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