[Pulp-list] Bulk Repo Creation - Thoughts/Comments?

[Jeff Ortel]

On 03/31/2011 08:51 AM, Todd B Sanders wrote:
> On 03/30/2011 05:49 PM, Mike McCune wrote:
>> On 03/30/2011 01:22 PM, Jay Dobies wrote:
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>>> On 03/30/2011 04:22 PM, Jason L Connor wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 14:55 -0400, Pradeep Kilambi wrote:
>>>>>> I'd say we drop "rhn", and determine local from feed url;
>>>>> http(s)://
>>>>>> -> remote and file:// -> local
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Todd
>>>>>
>>>>> yea if we can drop rhn; that should make things easy to determine.
>>>>>
>>>>> ~ Prad
>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>> Yes please. I've always found the syntax of (yum|rhn|local):<uri>
>>>> confusing.
>>>
>>> Same. I haven't had time to really think about this thread, but I agree
>>> that that part has always thrown me off. I still forget it from time to
>>> time.
>>>
>>
>>
>> what happens when the remote repo is a deb repo? Or the remote repo is just an http
>> collection of files? or if the remote repo is a maven repo? etc... http or https doesn't
>> necessarily always mean the remote location is a yum based repo.
>>
>> hence, the requirement for a type. I'd hesitate to drop type all together if we want to
>> make pulp support multiple types of repositories in the future but we could *default* to
>> yum for http/https based repos but allow for overrides if a type is specified.
>>
>> Mike
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> Totally agree Mike. My suggestion is to (1) drop the prefix on the feed and (2) add a
> --content-type attribute (i.e. yum, deb, file, puppet, etc)

I like the content-type attribute better then the url prefix.  But, I also like Pradeep's 
suggestion that we scan the url and determine the type.  Perhaps, the content-type and be 
optional.  When specified we use it, else we scan the url and determine it.

>
> -Todd
>
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