[katello-devel] Renaming of environments: summary

[Justin Sherrill]

On 08/13/2012 10:45 AM, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
> This is a summary of the thread started at 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/katello-devel/2012-August/msg00102.html.
> Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795928 for 
> details of the issue with environment renaming.
>
> Quite a few folks suggested using of an immutable label instead of 
> environment name, but at the end the idea was defeated by a comment 
> from Cliff Perry about users from locales using non-ascii-based 
> character sets.
> Another issue that was discovered was the migration of already 
> established environments from current version of Katello to the 
> version containing the fix. My current thinking is to use environment 
> name value as uuid for "legacy" environments. This would significantly 
> simply upgrade, as there will be no need to regenerate entitlement 
> certificates, etc.
>
> Katello:
>  - introduce environment uuids (update db schema, model, etc)
>  - update candlepin (this will include updates to schema, and resource 
> controller)
>  - update katello/katello cli to use uuids for environment identification
>  - update repository-related functionality to use environment uuids
>  - figure out/create migration from 1.0 to current
>
> Bryan, everything minus the migration bit is probably a couple days 
> worth of work. Should I create a new story, or I can start on this 
> right away?
>
> -d
>
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Any idea what the redhat.repo file will look like with numerical ids?  
Or yum repolist ?

-Justin