[Pulp-list] Need a term

[Pradeep Kilambi]

On 09/19/2012 09:05 AM, Jay Dobies wrote:
> I've been dancing around this issue for months now and it's starting 
> to give me a headache.
>
> We need a way to refer to repositories that contain RPM-related 
> content. It comes up as a conversational thing "Is that a Puppet 
> repository or a ___ repository?". It refers to the batch of 
> plugins/extensions that let us manage RPMs/errata/distributions. It'll 
> be used in the CLI to differentiate between the commands for puppet 
> repositories v. these other guys.
>
> The two natural candidates are "yum" and "rpm".
>
> The former is potentially confusing because there is such a thing as a 
> "yum repository". It's not inherently obvious if I'm talking about a 
> Pulp yum repository unless I qualify it (or refer to the actual yum 
> repo as the external source or something). Puppet doesn't really 
> suffer from this since they don't have a strong notion of a repository.
>
> The latter feels awkward since it's not just RPMs, it's other 
> (related) stuff like errata and distributions. The term "RPM 
> repository" is less ambiguous in the sense that it's easier to know 
> we're talking about the Pulp version, but also feels misnamed.
>
> What I'm hoping is that there's some all encompassing term for that 
> stuff that I'm missing.
>
> Any ideas? The biggest thing I need to answer now is in the CLI, so 
> keep that focus as the priority:
>
> pulp-admin puppet repo ...
> pulp-admin ______ repo ...
>
> Thanks  :)
>

  +1 to "RPM repository"

~ Prad