[katello-devel] GUI Basic Patch Management

[Todd Sanders]

On 07/29/2011 10:19 AM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> Today, went through the same basic story as I did with the cli. For 
> summary, the basic story is [1] and the cli scripts which I did were 
> at [2]. There versions I was using are:
>
> katello-cli-0.1.3-1.git.0.355425f.fc15.noarch
> katello-0.1.54-1.git.90.c8f3df2.fc15.noarch
> pulp-common-0.0.206-2.fc15.noarch
> pulp-client-0.0.206-2.fc15.noarch
> pulp-0.0.206-2.fc15.noarch
> candlepin-tomcat6-0.4.5-1.fc15.noarch
> candlepin-0.4.5-1.fc15.noarch
>
>
> Here are my notes. Please let me know if I should enter bugs against 
> these:
>
> 1) Should the provider be called Custom or Yum? Currently, we use 
> Custom in the GUI and YUM in the cli.

See my other email response.

>
> 2) When creating a new provider can the repository url be removed if 
> the typs is custom? If not, can we make the distinction between 
> active/disabled more prominant? I could not tell when it was made active.

Again, this url is not currently used; but rather a placeholder for repo 
discovery.

>
> 3) What does it mean to be custom type of file? Is that just a local 
> yum repo? Is that just a local file yum repo?

File-based repo; nothing to do with rpms/yum.  Think iso sync.
>
> 4) When I add a product, I am asked for a repo url.. but it is not 
> used. What is that used for?

Repo Discovery eventually.

>
> 5) Adding a repo where there are sub repos does not result in being 
> asked to import the other repos as the CLI does. For example, I can 
> add http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/katello/katello in the server 
> but it does not seem to find the repos in the lower directories.

Repo Discovery is not exposed in the webui yet.

>
> 6) Being able to click on the product in the repos screen in order to 
> edit seems a bit wierd. Especially, since the edit screen is actually 
> the menu item on the left.
>
> 7) When I add the repo 
> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/katello/katello/fedora-15/x86_64/ 
> to a new provider and try and sync it I see the following in the logs:
>
> Started GET 
> "/sync_management/sync_status/?repo_id=1311950235216-katello2-ACME_Corporation&sync_id=5a1e2ed7-b9f0-11e0-8c01-525400900260&_=1311948730616" 
> for 10.11.228.61 at Fri Jul 29 10:38:14 -0400 2011
>   Processing by SyncManagementController#sync_status as JSON
>   Parameters: {"repo_id"=>"1311950235216-katello2-ACME_Corporation", 
> "_"=>"1311948730616", "sync_id"=>"5a1e2ed7-b9f0-11e0-8c01-525400900260"}
> Completed   in 75ms
>
> NoMethodError (undefined method `to_sym' for nil:NilClass):
>   app/helpers/translation_helper.rb:15:in `relative_time_in_words'
>   app/controllers/sync_management_controller.rb:112:in `format_date'
>   app/controllers/sync_management_controller.rb:98:in 
> `format_sync_progress'
>   app/controllers/sync_management_controller.rb:60:in `sync_status'
>   lib/util/threadsession.rb:77:in `thread_locals'

I think repo sync in the webui is currently broken.  Or  atleast it was 
during our demo with USAA yesterday afternoon.

-Todd
>
>
> -- bk
>
>
>
> [1] http://fpaste.org/JFny/
> [2] http://fpaste.org/psOK/
>
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