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Bug 788165 - Unwrap all package categories during TDL export
Summary: Unwrap all package categories during TDL export
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: API
Version: 6.0.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: Unspecified
Assignee: Lukas Zapletal
QA Contact: Katello QA List
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-07 16:04 UTC by Lukas Zapletal
Modified: 2014-01-08 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-01-08 22:07:50 UTC
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Description Lukas Zapletal 2012-02-07 16:04:11 UTC 
ImageFactory does not support package categories, only package groups.

We need to "unwrap" them during TDL export.
Comment 1 Lukas Zapletal 2012-02-07 16:04:32 UTC 
Taking - relatively easy task.
Comment 2 Lukas Zapletal 2012-02-08 13:08:47 UTC 
It looked like "relatively easy task", but apparently it is not.

We do not store product and/or repository references for each package/group/category items in templates. Therefore I don't know to which repository a category belogs to. And this is a problem. I need this to get list of groups from a category in Pulp.

The issue is more generic - I will send an email about that. In my case solutions are:

a) Postpone this and do not support package groups for now.

b) Code the "unwrapping" logic to loop through all repositorories trying to find a package group with the same name. If more than one is found, an error will be issued.

c) Add repository references for each item in the template. This is a bigger change: model change, change in the UI and CLI to support this.
Comment 5 Lukas Zapletal 2012-02-08 13:51:04 UTC 
I doubt package group categories are useful. We support them since Pulp
is able to work with them, but for provisioning and template management
they are useless I guess.

They cannot be used in yum. They cannot be used in kickstarts. Only 
Anaconda use them to visualize package groups in a better way.

I recommend to remove this feature from templates. We should be able to
track them, display them when working with repositories, but I miss the
point to have them in system templates.
Comment 6 Lukas Zapletal 2012-02-08 14:21:45 UTC 
It would be much easier to implement this in ImageFactory, but I am not sure if
this is technically possible. Categories are maybe not visible to yum.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788560
Comment 8 Bryan Kearney 2014-01-08 22:07:50 UTC 
no more TDL
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