On 03/07/2012 11:57 AM, Johannes Renner wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 05:42 PM, Johannes Renner wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I want to propose a change concerning the names of cloned errata.
>> Currently, names of cloned errata are generated like this:
>>
>> String clonedAdvisoryName = "CL" + published.getAdvisoryName().substring(3);
>> String clonedAdvisory = "CL" + published.getAdvisory().substring(3);
>>
>> The reason for doing it like this might have been a small sized field in the
>> database, but AFAIK we already upstreamed a patch to enlarge the respective
>> field. Since cloned errata currently end up with rather strange names, I
>> would like to propose to do the naming like this instead:
>>
>> String clonedAdvisoryName = "CL-" + published.getAdvisoryName();
>> String clonedAdvisory = "CL-" + published.getAdvisory();
>>
>> Even the classification used for the Red Hat patches (E, S and B) gets lost
>> when removing the first 3 characters, since names start with RH(E|S|B). So
>> please tell me if I am missing any reason to keep the old naming scheme.
>>
>> Attached please find my proposed patch for spacewalk master.
> 
> Of course this algorithm is duplicated in the perl parts of Spacewalk ;-)
> Patch is attached.

Just reactivating/raising this thread on the list since there is no comments
yet, and I'm curious if you will accept the proposed changes or not.

Thanks,
Johannes

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