[katello-devel] Pulp warning: Unsupported characters for Yum

[Og Maciel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike McCune" <mmccune at redhat.com>
> To: katello-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 6:00:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Pulp warning: Unsupported characters for Yum
> 
> the Object Labeling solves it for new objects we create but for
> existing
> repositories with orgs/envs/products/repos with UTF8 characters we
> are
> out of luck because Pulp does *not* let you change the ID of the
> repo.
> We won't be able to migrate these over to the new scheme with a
> simple
> upgrade.
> 
> We may need to look into doing as pulp states above where we delete
> old
> repos and recreate with the new label.  This will cause some pain
> because they will need to get re-synced and re-promoted ... a fairly
> annoying problem that I'm looking into currently.

Shouldn't we then provide some kind of "migration" script to help out those who may be out of luck? It would be a "nice thing to do" imho.
-- 
Og Maciel

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