[Pulp-list] Repository cloning design

[Sayli Karmarkar]

Todd B. Sanders wrote:
>  On 10/12/2010 03:56 AM, Sayli Karmarkar wrote:
>> I have added design approach for supporting repository cloning at:
>> https://fedorahosted.org/pulp/wiki/RepositoryCloning
>>
>> Feel free to add your thoughts / suggestions to wiki or in this email 
>> thread.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> Thanks Sayli.
>
> * I'm not sure I see the benefit in modeling a parent_repo or a 
> cloned_repo.  Why treat this any different that a repo with a feed?Not 
> even sure that we need to persist the parent_id.  What specific use 
> cases lead you to believe that model changes are required?

I was thinking we might have to know about the relationship between a 
parent and a cloned repo. Adding parent_repo_id to Repo model will 
permit that.
Example usecase:  What happens when a parent repo of a feeded cloned 
repo is deleted? We need to either delete cloned repo or make it feedless.

>
> *Yes, errata is a requirement.  In the end, these are repos, and 
> should have the same functionality.
Sorry I was sort of vague in explaining this. What I meant is - do we 
want functionality of cloning with selected errata (similar to what we 
have in spacewalk )? By default cloned repo will have all errata from 
parent repo.
>
> -Todd


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