[katello-devel] Katello disconnected ideas

[Bryan Kearney]

On 09/13/2012 10:15 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> On 09/13/2012 02:23 PM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
>> - date range export support (I want export only most recent content)
>
> Please bear in mind that there are two kind of dates. From man
> rhn-satellite-exporter(8):
>
>         --use-rhn-date
>                Limit exported packages according to the date when they
> appeared at Red Hat Network. This is default.
>
>         --use-sync-date
>                Limit exported packages according to the date they where
> pulled into satellite.

Why do these dates matter?


> And that you if you specify range. I.e from 2012-09-01 to today. You can
> have errata which has same package with date 2012-08-30 and some with
> date 2012-09-02.
> Again from the same man page:
>
>         --whole-errata
>                Always include package if it belongs to errata which is
> withing start/end-date range.


Why would you not want to do this?

-- bk