Goal:

The foremanctl project is built from https://github.com/theforeman/foremanctl and packaged into an RPM. Today that happens via COPR, but there is a desire to package this and its dependency python-obsah (https://github.com/theforeman/obsah) into foreman-packaging in SAT-38733. Then this needs to become available to downstream customers.

To make testing easier, robottelo also needs to be taught about foremanctl because the satellite-deploy step heavily relies on the current installer. It's likely that initially it needs to support both the current satellite-installer and foremanctl as we migrate.

Acceptance Criteria:

• Build foremanctl and its dependencies upstream into foreman-packaging
• Build foremanctl in downstream so customers can consume this
• The configuration points to the right downstream images
• Some verification of the build is verified. For example, by running the test suite. This should act as a health check that the build is sane.

Open questions:

• Decide on which Python to use: default RHEL 9 Python 3.9 or the version we ship today (3.12). This affects how Ansible and obsah will be built and impacts upgrades. SAT-40361 is open about this.

Implementation hints:

The containers are configured in https://github.com/theforeman/foremanctl/blob/master/src/vars/images.yml and those point to upstream versions. They somehow need to be translated into the downstream equivalents.