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Bug 1952939 - [RFE] Support for Satellite Tools version-1 repository is version.
Summary: [RFE] Support for Satellite Tools version-1 repository is version.
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Packaging
Version: 6.8.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: 6.12.0
Assignee: Patrick Creech
QA Contact: Lukas Pramuk
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-04-23 15:40 UTC by Vedashree Deshpande
Modified: 2023-09-18 00:25 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2022-11-16 13:32:29 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker SAT-8659 0 None None None 2022-09-14 13:34:54 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:8506 0 None None None 2022-11-16 13:32:36 UTC

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
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