[katello-devel] Demotions and deletions

[Jason Rist]

On 08/28/2012 06:56 AM, Brad Buckingham wrote:
> On 08/28/2012 08:10 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Miroslav Suchy
>> Red Hat Systems Management Engineering
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> Hi,
> 
> The feature that was recently introduced in Katello is content
> deletion.  It allows for deletion of content (which includes things such
> as products, repos, packages, errata, distributions and system
> templates) from any environment along the promotion path, except for the
> Library.  It isn't really a demotion of content since it is possible to
> delete content from the an environment that is in the middle of the path
> (e.g. assuming Library->Dev->Test, user could delete a package from Dev
> leaving it in Test).   For content deletion, all deletions are done via
> the Content->Changesets page in the UI.
> 
> For reference, the following is a brief wiki on the feature:
> https://fedorahosted.org/katello/wiki/ContentDeletionDesign .
> 
> In the bug mentioned, the issue is with deleting content via Content ->
> Repositories -> Custom Content Repositories.  This deletes the
> repository from the Library; however, it appears to be leaving some data
> in the later environments along the path.
> 
> For this one, a couple of solutions might be:
> 1. Do not allow user to delete a repository.  (Doesn't sound good).
> 2. Allow the user to delete a repository, deleting it from the Library
> and all environments that it has been promoted to.  Prior to deletion,
> in the Deletion Confirmation dialog provide them with additional
> information  detailing all environments that the Repository will be
> deleted from.  For example,
>     Are you sure you want to delete repo ABC?
>     Warning! This repo currently exists in: Library->Dev->Test and
> Library->Dev2
> 
> thanks,
> Brad
> 
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I like 2

Will this also delete the data from the disk?

-J

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