Red Hat Satellite engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on Satellite to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "Satellite project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs will be migrated starting at the end of May. If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "Satellite project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.
Bug 772336 - [RFE] Ability to specify a different location to store packages/repos
Summary: [RFE] Ability to specify a different location to store packages/repos
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1159270
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Pulp
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: Unspecified
Assignee: satellite6-bugs
QA Contact: Katello QA List
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1127809 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: sat6-pulp-future 1127809
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-01-06 21:02 UTC by Ashley Penney
Modified: 2019-08-15 03:33 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 1127809 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-10-08 13:26:01 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1127809 0 low CLOSED [RFE] Ability to specify a different location to store packages/repos in Satellite 6 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 1131873 0 None None None Never

Internal Links: 1127809

Description Ashley Penney 2012-01-06 21:02:48 UTC 
Feature request:

As it stands all packages/repos are stored in /var/lib/pulp and I'd like the ability to point these elsewhere (so that my massive packagesets can live on NFS).  Right now I have moved /var/lib/pulp and symlinked it back but I feel this is the wrong approach and it would be better to just define the package storage location.
Comment 1 Kedar Bidarkar 2012-01-27 07:50:04 UTC 
I understand that the below 2 bugs are slightly different but think it would be of great help in this context.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784601(katello)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784519(rhui)


In short pulp.spec also needs to handle the permissions of the custom/separate disks partitions which stores repos/packages.
Comment 87 Michael Hrivnak 2013-08-22 15:49:37 UTC 
For this issue, we recommend mounting dedicated storage either at /var/, /var/lib/, or /var/lib/pulp/. Also note that mongo can quickly use many GB of storage, so consider making plenty of storage available at /var/lib/mongodb/.

Mounting an NFS device within /var/lib/ is quite reasonable. Also consider doing a bind mount, which lets you store the data on any part of your FS hierarchy you like.

/var/lib/ is the appropriate place to store application data. See the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for details:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE31

RHEL uses the FSH as its "authoritative reference": https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/s1-filesystem-fhs.html

We will certainly consider ways to make it easier for sysadmins to deploy pulp with storage in non-standard locations.
Comment 90 Brian Bouterse 2015-02-19 00:46:56 UTC 
Moved to https://pulp.plan.io/issues/162
Comment 91 Brian Bouterse 2015-03-05 22:01:42 UTC 
*** Bug 1127809 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 92 Brian Bouterse 2015-05-01 15:57:26 UTC 
Pulp will ensure that it works with /var/lib/pulp as a symlinked directory and document that this is a supported configuration of Pulp.

Hosting /var/lib/pulp (and other Pulp directories) on NFS is already a tested and supported configuration so that's also an option.

Either way, sat6 should use symlinks or NFS to store content in /var/lib/pulp on another area of the filesystem or other systems. Sat6 will need to configure this at install time. Feel free to needsinfo me with any questions.
Comment 93 pulp-infra@redhat.com 2015-05-01 16:00:47 UTC 
The Pulp upstream bug priority is at Normal. Updating the external tracker on this bug.
Comment 94 Bryan Kearney 2015-10-08 13:26:01 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1159270 ***
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.