[katello-devel] GUI Basic Patch Management

[Bryan Kearney]

On 07/29/2011 10:39 AM, Todd Sanders wrote:
> On 07/29/2011 10:19 AM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Today, went through the same basic story as I did with the cli. For
>> summary, the basic story is [1] and the cli scripts which I did were
>> at [2]. There versions I was using are:
>>
>> katello-cli-0.1.3-1.git.0.355425f.fc15.noarch
>> katello-0.1.54-1.git.90.c8f3df2.fc15.noarch
>> pulp-common-0.0.206-2.fc15.noarch
>> pulp-client-0.0.206-2.fc15.noarch
>> pulp-0.0.206-2.fc15.noarch
>> candlepin-tomcat6-0.4.5-1.fc15.noarch
>> candlepin-0.4.5-1.fc15.noarch
>>
>>
>> Here are my notes. Please let me know if I should enter bugs against
>> these:
>>
>> 1) Should the provider be called Custom or Yum? Currently, we use
>> Custom in the GUI and YUM in the cli.
>
> See my other email response.
>
>>
>> 2) When creating a new provider can the repository url be removed if
>> the typs is custom? If not, can we make the distinction between
>> active/disabled more prominant? I could not tell when it was made active.
>
> Again, this url is not currently used; but rather a placeholder for repo
> discovery.
>
>>
>> 3) What does it mean to be custom type of file? Is that just a local
>> yum repo? Is that just a local file yum repo?
>
> File-based repo; nothing to do with rpms/yum. Think iso sync.
>>
>> 4) When I add a product, I am asked for a repo url.. but it is not
>> used. What is that used for?
>
> Repo Discovery eventually.
>
>>
>> 5) Adding a repo where there are sub repos does not result in being
>> asked to import the other repos as the CLI does. For example, I can
>> add http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/katello/katello in the server
>> but it does not seem to find the repos in the lower directories.
>
> Repo Discovery is not exposed in the webui yet.
>
>>
>> 6) Being able to click on the product in the repos screen in order to
>> edit seems a bit wierd. Especially, since the edit screen is actually
>> the menu item on the left.
>>
>> 7) When I add the repo
>> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/katello/katello/fedora-15/x86_64/
>> to a new provider and try and sync it I see the following in the logs:
>>
>> Started GET
>> "/sync_management/sync_status/?repo_id=1311950235216-katello2-ACME_Corporation&sync_id=5a1e2ed7-b9f0-11e0-8c01-525400900260&_=1311948730616"
>> for 10.11.228.61 at Fri Jul 29 10:38:14 -0400 2011
>> Processing by SyncManagementController#sync_status as JSON
>> Parameters: {"repo_id"=>"1311950235216-katello2-ACME_Corporation",
>> "_"=>"1311948730616", "sync_id"=>"5a1e2ed7-b9f0-11e0-8c01-525400900260"}
>> Completed in 75ms
>>
>> NoMethodError (undefined method `to_sym' for nil:NilClass):
>> app/helpers/translation_helper.rb:15:in `relative_time_in_words'
>> app/controllers/sync_management_controller.rb:112:in `format_date'
>> app/controllers/sync_management_controller.rb:98:in
>> `format_sync_progress'
>> app/controllers/sync_management_controller.rb:60:in `sync_status'
>> lib/util/threadsession.rb:77:in `thread_locals'
>
> I think repo sync in the webui is currently broken. Or atleast it was
> during our demo with USAA yesterday afternoon.
>
> -Todd


Is this being tracked, or should I enter a bug?

-- bk