Package storage location?

Tom McKay thomasmckay at redhat.com
Mon Oct 15 16:52:24 UTC 2012



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas H Stewart" <StewartD4 at email.chop.edu>
> To: "<katello at lists.fedorahosted.org>" <katello at lists.fedorahosted.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 11:57:56 AM
> Subject: Re: Package storage location?
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> On Sep 27, 2012, at 1:57 AM, Ivan Nečas <inecas at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 09/26/2012 10:46 PM, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> >> On 09/26/2012 03:09 PM, Stewart, Douglas H wrote:
> >>> Hypothetically, let's say I'm space-constrained on a local device
> >>> but have plenty of SAN space to dump ISOs, RPMs, etc. on. How
> >>> would I go about putting those sizable pieces of data out onto
> >>> said SAN space? Is it as as simple as moving a couple of
> >>> directories and symlinking, or is it something more profound?
> >>> 
> >>> -Doug
> >>> 
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> >> All packages are stored in  /var/lib/pulp/packages/  so
> >> theoretically you could simply symlink that directory to
> >> something on your san.  I'm guessing that selinux might cause
> >> issues, so you may try disabling it if you have trouble.
> > 
> > I've tried symlinks in past (I was symlinking the whole
> > /var/lib/pulp directory), but it was not working as expected
> > (maybe with /var/lib/pulp/packages it might be different, but it's
> > good to know about this). When symlinking the whole /var/lib/pulp,
> > there was problem that the symlinks that are in
> > /var/lib/pulp/repos were not evaluated correctly.
> > 
> > My advice is, if the symlinking doesn't work, use mount --bind.
> > There might be additional steps with selinux, to give the new
> > directory the context pulp needs. But to try it out, disabling
> > selinux (and turning it on later) is a good start.
> > 
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> 
> Note, as I discovered today:
> If you sync the ISOs, make sure you symlink /var/lib/pulp/files as
> well, since those ISOs will gobble up free space too. *grin*
> 

Is it just me, or does this seem like a sensible option for pulp to have?

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