[Pulp-list] Uploading the same RPM to multiple pulp repos via the REST API

[Brian Bouterse]

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FYI, I've put in a proposal to redo the upload API in a way that would
allow an upload once, associate many use case.

The main design story:  https://pulp.plan.io/issues/892

Two related stories:
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/894
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/923

Consider adding comments or +1's to those. Improvements are welcome!

- -Brian

On 11/12/2015 09:09 AM, Randy Barlow wrote:
> Mihai Ibanescu wrote:
>> * if I find an orphan (a unit for which repository_memberships
>> is empty), I can't figure out how I can copy that into a repo.
>> The association code seems to expect a source repo. I suspect I
>> need to re-upload in that case.
> 
> Would you be willing to file an RFE about this? That seems like a
> pretty glaring shortcoming in the API to me. The more I think about
> it, the less sense it makes to require a source repository when
> performing an association. It makes far more sense for Pulp to
> offer an API where units are associated with repositories by
> filters on the units themselves.
> 
>> * if I attempt to push a new unit into two repos, I can push it
>> to the first one, but I could not figure out a way to retrieve
>> the underlying unit from the original upload's task. There are
>> some IDs that do not correlate to anything I can use. So I need
>> to do an unnecessary lookup to find out what I've just pushed,
>> which is a real shame. I guess I could do the copying by checksum
>> again, to avoid an extra lookup.
> 
> Would you be willing to file another RFE about this use case as
> well?
> 
> I wonder if a better set of APIs would be:
> 
> 0) upload lets you upload units, and it returns their unit ids in
> Pulp. It does not associate with repositories.
> 
> 1) associate allows you to associate units by ids with
> repositories.
> 
> The combination of the two I think would work well for your use
> case, as well as all other use cases that I am familiar with.
> 
> Thanks for the e-mail!
> 
> 
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