Provide ways of promoting packages in artifactory (e.g. from snapshot to release, testing to stable,...)

[bavovanachte]

Description

Ideally, we would be able to promote packages on artifactory in an automated way (using gitlab CI).

Couple of use cases:

• Promoting pypi package:
  • Copy the whl file from pypi-snapshot-local to pypi-release-local
• Promoting debian package:
  • Copy a number of files (related to a single release) within the debian-local repository (from testing folder to stable folder)
  • Change deb.distribution attribute from "testing" to "stable" for all the copied files

According to @bollenn , the following steps are needed to make this possible:

• Implement a way to assign attributes to artifacts (based on CI environment variables)
• RTfactory DPUT implementation (debian packages)
• Promotion of artifacts

@bollenn , can you finetune this a bit, and maybe provide links to what is needed?

[bavovanachte]

FYI @ptillemans

[bollenn]

We also need to add a feature to push CI environment variables to Artifactory, hereby we can use the build/pipeline number to promote later on ;-)

So having a manual started job for tags which searches for the artifact belonging to it's pipeline and promoting it

[bollenn]

I've seen Jenkins creating builds and pushing their info, and next linking builds to artifacts but I do not yet find the API info... Do we nowadays need Pro for that? @ptillemans