[katello-devel] Renaming of environments: summary

[Dmitri Dolguikh]

On 13/08/12 03:52 PM, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> 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 ?
Same as now, but with environment uuids instead on environment names.
-d
>
> -Justin
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