[Pulp-dev] Changing path of media dir of pulp3 (not hardcoded /var/lib/pulp)

[Pavel Picka]

Ok I will try to dig into where and why we use absolute path and if we do
not need I'll implement choice 2 (I am happy you see it same way).

Thank You

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 2:42 PM Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com> wrote:

> I don't know why we're using absolute paths. Option 2 makes sense to me. +1
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 8:27 AM David Davis <daviddavis at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> By default, django stores relative paths in the database. I'm curious as
>> to why we're using absolute paths?
>>
>> If there's not a reason we need to use absolute paths, then +1 to option
>> 2.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 1:06 PM Pavel Picka <ppicka at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> as working on #4380 I get to state I can change the path from
>>> '/var/lib/pulp' to whatever I need but getting hard time to receive old
>>> files (when got new location/mount) as artifacts has saved absolute path in
>>> the DB.
>>> My suggestions are:
>>> 1) easy way - user can do change only once before first run/use of pulp
>>> 2) my favorite - redo models to save only relative path and add base
>>> directory later at runtime from settings
>>> 3) hard way - offline db migration (when pulp is not running) to change
>>> path of artifacts in DB
>>>
>>> I would like to ask about your suggestions, opinions and ideas on this
>>> how to move this forward.
>>>
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