Bug 1722413

AFAIK plugins uninstalling or disabling is generally not supported and know to be problematic (with 1 exception IIRC). What is the use case for implementing this?

Hey Mirek, The intent behind this RFE is to have a parity between UI and CLI for enabling or disabling the virt-who plugin like we have the same option for other plugins like oscap. Now I see your comment "AFAIK plugins uninstalling or disabling is generally not supported and know to be problematic", so how it is problematic ?

I think there are some misunderstandings here

1) this plugin has a rake task to clean up DB, which is handy if someone uninstalls the plugin in upstream
2) plugins uninstallation is not supported in Satellite in general at least as far as I know, e.g. you can't uninstall foreman_openscap, foreman_ansible or katello. I believe satellite rpm has a hard dependency on these plugins. Today, there's no way to disable plugin.
3) satellite-installer --no-enable-$whatever does not uninstall anything, it just disables configuration of the plugin, once you install the plugin and run the installer with this option, it does not touch this part configuration
4) Given the above, this plugin is no exception and disabling/uninstallation is not possible

To give you a bit more background for what I referred to as problematic - uninstalling means removal of the code that defines classes, the data still remains in DB, also structures are already changed. When later Satellite see such data, it's missing a class definition for it, resulting in 500. Also in rare cases, the remaining code does not know how to worked with modified DB schema.

Do you need more information or can we close this as not a bug? Also not sure what you mean by UI and CLI for enabling/disabling plugin. There's no UI or CLI for this.

Thanks Marek.

I understand that the enable/disable options doesn't uninstall plugins and plugin uninstall is not supported in general. I can close this as not a bug.