[katello-devel] Demotions and deletions

[Miroslav Suchý]

On 08/28/2012 12:29 PM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> Hey,
>
> stumbled upon a bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835875)
> that prevents you from creating a repository with a same name that has
> been deleted (but promoted).
>
> Now the question - we now do support demotions (those promotions
> opposite - not sure about wording). Therefore I guess the proper
> solution would be to check if the repository (*) was already promoted.
> If so, Katello will refuse to delete the object asking user to do the
> demotion.
>
> Opinions?

+1
I was thinking for a while about offering to do demotion for them (with 
big exclamation mark). But if that would be easy, you can easily destroy 
your set up. So I would leave it to admin to do that by hand.

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Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Systems Management Engineering