[katello-devel] Renaming of environments: summary

[Justin Sherrill]

On 08/13/2012 10:55 AM, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
> On 13/08/12 03:52 PM, Justin Sherrill wrote:
>> On 08/13/2012 10:45 AM, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>>> This is a summary of the thread started at 
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/katello-devel/2012-August/msg00102.html. 
>>>
>>> Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795928 for 
>>> details of the issue with environment renaming.
>>>
>>> Quite a few folks suggested using of an immutable label instead of 
>>> environment name, but at the end the idea was defeated by a comment 
>>> from Cliff Perry about users from locales using non-ascii-based 
>>> character sets.
>>> Another issue that was discovered was the migration of already 
>>> established environments from current version of Katello to the 
>>> version containing the fix. My current thinking is to use 
>>> environment name value as uuid for "legacy" environments. This would 
>>> significantly simply upgrade, as there will be no need to regenerate 
>>> entitlement certificates, etc.
>>>
>>> Katello:
>>>  - introduce environment uuids (update db schema, model, etc)
>>>  - update candlepin (this will include updates to schema, and 
>>> resource controller)
>>>  - update katello/katello cli to use uuids for environment 
>>> identification
>>>  - update repository-related functionality to use environment uuids
>>>  - figure out/create migration from 1.0 to current
>>>
>>> Bryan, everything minus the migration bit is probably a couple days 
>>> worth of work. Should I create a new story, or I can start on this 
>>> right away?
>>>
>>> -d
>>>
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>> Any idea what the redhat.repo file will look like with numerical 
>> ids?  Or yum repolist ?
> Same as now, but with environment uuids instead on environment names.
> -d

So

[123456]
name=123456
baseurl=http://hostname/pulp/ACME_Corporation/123456/repo/

or

[123456]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 RPMS
baseurl=http://hostname/pulp/ACME_Corporation/123456/repo/


?


>>
>> -Justin
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