I read as far as 'yum repository' and said "URGH" immediately. Definitely call it an RPM repository. I think most people will understand right from the start that it'll include metadata and other stuff like errata/distributions while being at its core an RPM repo.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Jay Dobies <[email protected]> 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 :) > > -- > Jay Dobies > Freenode: jdob @ #pulp > http://pulpproject.org | http://blog.pulpproject.org > > _______________________________________________ > Pulp-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list _______________________________________________ Pulp-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list
