SUSE MGR 2.1 Feature requests

SUSE Manager
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Please add:

  1. a status page for channel downloads, and not just the % completed, but what is actually being downloaded at the time or at least a log file. Maybe a status indicator when a repo is ready for use.

  2. the ability to interactively download a channel on demand.

  3. a field that tells you where the repo for the channel reside on the server.

  4. ability to rebuild a repo

Thanks

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[QUOTE=cisaksen;28149]Please add:

  1. a status page for channel downloads, and not just the % completed, but what is actually being downloaded at the time or at least a log file. Maybe a status indicator when a repo is ready for use.
    [/QUOTE]
    We thought about this but discarded it. Download is just one of many steps required to make a channel ‘ready to use’. A lot of time is spent in rebuilding the database index, which is hard to track.

[QUOTE=cisaksen;28149]2) the ability to interactively download a channel on demand.
[/QUOTE]
You can schedule a refresh of a channel.

[QUOTE=cisaksen;28149]3) a field that tells you where the repo for the channel reside on the server.
[/QUOTE]
The repo does not reside on the server, its created on-demand via database queries. Packages are spread all over /var/spacewalk and an individual ‘repo view’ is created on-demand.

[QUOTE=cisaksen;28149]4) ability to rebuild a repo
[/QUOTE]
See refresh of channel above.