Bug 1952939

Summary:	[RFE] Support for Satellite Tools version-1 repository is version.
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	Vedashree Deshpande <vdeshpan>
Component:	Packaging	Assignee:	Patrick Creech <pcreech>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Lukas Pramuk <lpramuk>
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Priority:	low
Version:	6.8.0	CC:	ehelms, mvanderw
Target Milestone:	6.12.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	Unused
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Vedashree Deshpande 2021-04-23 15:40:25 UTC

Description of problem:

Explained with Example by the Customer
We have 1 Satellite, 3 Capsules, 1800 hosts and 20 organisations.
20 organisations = at least 20 different sysadmin teams.

We (our central team) control (more or less) the Satellite & Capsule systems, so we can upgrade them approximately at the same time.
But as listed in the official docs, the tools NEED to be at the same version as the central Satellite.

So upgrade of the tools need to be done on ALL systems, by ALL the system admins.
Ensuring upgrade is done by 20 different teams, successfully on 1800 hosts is a complicated tasks, especially if it needs to be done "right at the time" of the satellite upgrade.

I'm not asking much, just an official support of the N-1 satellite by the tools.
This way, we would be able to update the tools 1 month before the update of the satellite, and be ready when we upgrade the satellite.

Comment 1 Mike McCune 2021-05-05 13:59:37 UTC

We will be solving this in Satellite 7.0 and later with the removal of 'versioned' Satellite Tools repositories for each release of Satellite.

We will only have 1 repository for Satellite 7 Tools, eg:

rhel-7-server-satellite-tools-7-rpms
satellite-tools-7-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

these repositories will be supported across all versions of Satellite 7 and not require immediate upgrades to your clients at time of upgrade of the Satellite.

Comment 6 Lukas Pramuk 2022-09-14 13:16:28 UTC

VERIFIED.

@Satellite 6.12.0 Snap10

by the fact that both Satellite 6.12 and Satellite 6.11 clients are going to use the same un-versioned Client repo

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-16 13:32:29 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Important: Satellite 6.12 Release), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8506

Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-18 00:25:59 UTC

The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 120 days