[katello-devel] Unique product names in CP

[Devan Goodwin]

This part of Candlepin is coming from initially designing for hosted
products which are global in nature and that's likely why we added
this uniqueness constraint.

I don't see any real problem with removing it on the product name,
aside from the fact that an org could make two products with the same
name and in a lot of UI locations, would be unable to tell the
difference. (unless Katello enforces product name uniqueness per org,
which I guess it probably should)

A much larger possible solution is getting Candlepin's products
per-org, but this is likely a very big rats nest on our part, so we're
hoping this solution works, and Katello can do the needful in terms of
tracking orgs and their custom products.

I would file a bug and harass us/BK if it's an urgent change.

Cheers,

Devan

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Tomas Strachota <tstrachota at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> in Katello we currently can't create two custom products (each in different
> Org) with the same name. There's uniqueness constraint on product names in
> candlepin that doesn't allow it.
>
> My question is:
> Would it be possible to remove the constraint?
>
> There are still unique product ids so from my point of view it seems safe to
> remove the constraint from names. But my candlepin knowledge is not very
> deep.
> Are there any objections or better solutions you can see?
>
> Prefixing the product name with org name wouldn't work here as the name is
> displayed in subscription manager. Also sharing one candlepin product with
> more katello products is no a good idea because they can have different
> content.
>
>
> Thanks for opinions and ideas
> Tomas
>
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