[katello-devel] Where should subscriptions be?

[Bryan Kearney]

On 07/13/2012 08:33 AM, Cliff Perry wrote:
> On 07/12/2012 09:30 AM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Questions from some design sessions on Foreman integration. Where should
>> we tie subscriptions to?
>>
>> We could put them onto the the component outline to say "Any system
>> provisioned from this outline should consume from this subscription".
>> This is better for the case where you create the system record first,
>> and then provision it.
>>
>> Or, we could put them on the activation key which would say "When you
>> register this machine with this key, you get this subscription". This is
>> better when you provision outside of katello and then register the
>> machine back.
>>
>> Or, we could put them on both, and have some logic about how to handle
>> the case when it is on both. Or, perhaps, every component outline gets
>> an activation key?
>
> The last - every component outline gets an activation key
>
>   - even if it is by default due to some global activationkey used, when
> no others is specified.
>


with this case, only the activation keys carry subscriptions. I have 2 
votes for that. Anyone disagree?

-- bk