[katello-devel] Renaming of environments: summary

[Bryan Kearney]

On 08/14/2012 07:17 AM, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
> On 13/08/12 11:13 PM, Mike McCune wrote:
>> On 08/13/2012 08:00 AM, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>>> On 13/08/12 03:57 PM, Justin Sherrill wrote:
>>>> On 08/13/2012 10:55 AM, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>> Apologies, I didn't understand the question. The latter.
>>> -d
>>>> So
>>>>
>>>> [123456]
>>>> name=123456
>>>> baseurl=http://hostname/pulp/ACME_Corporation/123456/repo/
>>>>
>>>> or
>>>>
>>>> [123456]
>>>> name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 RPMS
>>>> baseurl=http://hostname/pulp/ACME_Corporation/123456/repo/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ?
>>>>
>>
>>
>> and this really blows for our users, IMHO.  You go from a relatively
>> readable and clear yum configuration file that a sysadmin can look at
>> quickly and understand:
>>
>> [ACME_Corporation_zoo_zoorepo]
>> name = zoorepo
>> baseurl =
>> https://katello.example.com/pulp/repos/ACME_Corporation/dev//custom/zoo/zoorepo
>>
>> enabled = 1
>> gpgcheck = 1
>> sslverify = 1
>> sslcacert = /etc/rhsm/ca/candlepin-local.pem
>> sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/3783882558646362292-key.pem
>> sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/3783882558646362292.pem
>>
>> to:
>>
>> [313024c0-c7bd-012f-d852-1803734d16c4]
>> name = zoorepo
>> baseurl =
>> https://katello.example.com/pulp/repos/ACME_Corporation/83ef9ef0-c7bd-012f-d852-1803734d16c4//custom/zoo/313024c0-c7bd-012f-d852-1803734d16c4
>>
>> enabled = 1
>> gpgcheck = 1
>> sslverify = 1
>> sslcacert = /etc/rhsm/ca/candlepin-local.pem
>> sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/3783882558646362292-key.pem
>> sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/3783882558646362292.pem

So, this pains me.. especially since tools like packagekit need to 
enable and disable repos. If there is a solution where the name and the 
id are Human Readable and "As close to locale as possible" then I am 
fine. Image how ugly this screen would look with UUIDS.

-- bk


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