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Bug 1216024 - [RFE] Support Debian on Satellite 6
Summary: [RFE] Support Debian on Satellite 6
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Repositories
Version: 6.0.8
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: Unspecified
Assignee: satellite6-bugs
QA Contact: Katello QA List
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 260381
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-04-28 11:44 UTC by Istvan Cebrian
Modified: 2024-10-28 15:24 UTC (History)
23 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2018-01-12 18:18:43 UTC
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Red Hat Bugzilla 717269 1 None None None 2022-03-13 13:50:38 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 1239043 0 None None None Never

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Description Istvan Cebrian 2015-04-28 11:44:28 UTC 
Description of problem:

Currently on Satellite 6 Debian is not supported, however, many clients who demonstrate interest in Satellite typical also always have one other question "If all features are supported on all Linux distributions" which currently are not.

Clients primary concerns are typically related to Debian systems which are also very wide-spread. Satellite 6 only support Debian in what regards Provisioning and Configuration Management.

It would be very interesting to bring Debian support for Content, Lifecycle and Repository management to Satellite 6 and I beleive it would further help push Satellite 6 out to customers.

Possible avenues:

1. Integrate project such as Aptly into Pulp or Katello or Foreman (http://www.aptly.info/)

2. Further develop support for DEB in Pulp via projecto "pulp_deb" at https://github.com/pulp/pulp_deb

Would be available to assist in any testing if necessary.
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2015-04-28 11:53:27 UTC 
Since this issue was entered in Red Hat Bugzilla, the release flag has been
set to ? to ensure that it is properly evaluated for this release.
Comment 7 NIST 184 Admin 2017-01-25 19:44:52 UTC 
Another vote for developing support to manage other Linux distros (Debian / Ubuntu) so we have a single pane of glass to manage all our platforms. Central IT orgs don't get to always dictate the distro our customers want, but we can dictate the tool that we use to manage them. Having a single management platform that supports multiple Linux distro families is a selling point of Satellite pulp / kotello can be updated do it.
Comment 13 Rich Jerrido 2018-01-12 18:18:43 UTC 
The capabilities to manage Debian systems are available in the upstream. We have no intention at this time to productize and support Debian in Red Hat Satellite.
Comment 14 NIST 184 Admin 2018-01-12 18:21:19 UTC 
(In reply to Rich Jerrido from comment #13)

> The capabilities to manage Debian systems are available in the upstream. We
> have no intention at this time to productize and support Debian in Red Hat
> Satellite.

What is Red Hat's Satellite support policy regarding customers loading these upstream capabilities into the Red Hat provided Satellite system to grant themselves this capability.
Comment 19 Christopher X. Candreva 2024-10-28 15:24:28 UTC 
Redhat: You are shooting yourselves in the foot on this one.
I second everything in Comment 7. 
We pay for Satellite, yet I now have to come up with some other solution for Debian installs provided by vendors. This reduces the usefulness of Satellite and causes me to wonder why I don't just use Foreman/Katello instead.
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