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  1. Satellite
  2. SAT-18727

Better content view filtering representation for packages vs modular packages

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      Description of problem:
      When creating a content view filter for a package by name, I can see mixed results with the filter working as expected due to packages being modular and not being considered for RPM content view filters.

      A better representation of what packages would be affected by a filter or certain type should be created.

      Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
      satellite-6.12.0-4.el8sat.noarch

      How reproducible:
      Every time

      Steps to Reproduce:
      1. Create a content view with rhel-7-server-rpms repo only and add the filter to exclude RPM "389-ds-base". At the time of this writing, this filters out 55 packages which would be correct.

      2. Create another content view with the "Red Hat Satellite Maintenance 6.12 for RHEL 8 x86_64 RPMs" with a filter to exclude package "rubygem-clamp" (all archs, all versions). This filters out nothing. Create another filter for this same content view and filter out "*" for the package name (all archs, all versions) and it filters out only "satellite-clone".
      3.This is because all packages in the Satellite Maintenance 6.12 for RHEL 8 (at this time) are modular except for 1 (satellite-clone). This is not explained or understandable from the content view filter screen without having to navigate to other pages on the Satellite.

      Actual results:
      See "Steps to reproduce"

      Expected results:

      {BEST OPTION}

      Inclusion/Exclusion should be applied to the repository no matter what the status of modularity or repository contains the stream its associated with.

      {NEXT BEST OPTION}

      WebUI should display the package's modularity status along with the stream they are associated with everywhere it's viewable to see packages:

      Additional info:
      With the introduction of streams and modularity in RHEL 8 there has been a lot of confusion on why won't systems just update to the latest like yum always has. If DNF is going to treat RPMs differently at the OS level I believe Satellite should also reclass them as a "modular package" as opposed to including them under the umbrella term of "packages".

            rhn-engineering-sajha Samir Jha
            jira-bugzilla-migration RH Bugzilla Integration
            Cole Higgins Cole Higgins
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