As a user I want to create arbitrary structured publications

[pulpbot]

Author: @quba42 (quba42)

Redmine Issue: 7287, https://pulp.plan.io/issues/7287

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Right now the only way to create structured publications is to sync a remote repository (the metadata structure of which will be recreated by pulp_deb).

Instead, I want the ability to:

1. manually create a release from a list of one or more components.
2. add/remove components from existing releases.
3. manually create a component from a list of zero or more packages.
4. add/remove packages from existing components.
5. add/remove releases from a repository.

It is crucial that any of the above actions automatically create a consistent repository. For example: If I add a release to a repository, then any components, packages, etc. part of that release must also be added to the repository automatically

[pulpbot]

From: @quba42 (quba42)
Date: 2020-08-06T10:35:10Z

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Needs Discussion: Should manually created Releases and Components also generate the relevant artifacts for verbatim publication?

[pulpbot]

From: jxsxs (jxsxs)
Date: 2021-04-12T08:13:00Z

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Second this!

I wanted to do this as well but could not find a way.

I have a release and want to create a release_component off of it.

        }
            "codename": "stretch",
            "distribution": "debian",
            "pulp_created": "2021-04-08T19:44:41.592665Z",
            "pulp_href": "/pulp/api/v3/content/deb/releases/80f239cf-52a4-4cbc-8072-d4029ca6cc54/",
            "suite": "stretch"
        }

POST to pulp/api/v3/content/deb/release_components/

with

Payload:
{

    "component": "stable",
    "release": "pulp/api/v3/content/deb/releases/80f239cf-52a4-4cbc-8072-d4029ca6cc54"

}

results in:


{
    "release": [
        "Invalid hyperlink - No URL match."
    ]
}

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[quba42]

I am closing this, since it is now possible (though still quite difficult) to create arbitrary structured repos.

With features like the structured upload, we are moving in this direction, though in a somewhat different way from what this ticket envisages.

The current issue that best tracks these efforts is currently #785