[katello-devel] Pulp warning: Unsupported characters for Yum

[Bryan Kearney]

On 10/02/2012 06:14 PM, Og Maciel wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mike McCune" <mmccune at redhat.com>
>> To: katello-devel at redhat.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 6:00:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Pulp warning: Unsupported characters for Yum
>>
>> the Object Labeling solves it for new objects we create but for
>> existing
>> repositories with orgs/envs/products/repos with UTF8 characters we
>> are
>> out of luck because Pulp does *not* let you change the ID of the
>> repo.
>> We won't be able to migrate these over to the new scheme with a
>> simple
>> upgrade.
>>
>> We may need to look into doing as pulp states above where we delete
>> old
>> repos and recreate with the new label.  This will cause some pain
>> because they will need to get re-synced and re-promoted ... a fairly
>> annoying problem that I'm looking into currently.
>
> Shouldn't we then provide some kind of "migration" script to help out those who may be out of luck? It would be a "nice thing to do" imho.
>
Ask on the list and internally how many folks have this issue. If there 
are none, I vote for not providing a fix until we run into it.

-- bk