module package exclusion behavior on EL8

[Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxx>]

I continue to run into strange (at least to me) issues with modules on 
EL8.  RHEL8 ships a 'rhn-tools' module that ships only the "koan" 
package from the cobbler srpm [1].  When this module is enabled, I 
cannot install cobbler from my copr - dnf reports that 'cobbler' is 
excluded.

Can someone fill me in more on this.? Is this expected?  I don't see 
anything in the module file (assuming I have the right module file) that 
specifically calls out cobbler for exclusion (such as a filter entry) - 
so is it just automatically creating an exclusion for all unshipped 
packages?

There is very little feedback from dnf - the cobbler package simply 
disappears:

# dnf list cobbler
Available Packages
cobbler.noarch  3.0.1-2.el8 copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:orion:cobbler
cobbler.src     3.0.1-2.el8 copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:orion:cobbler

# dnf module enable rhn-tools

# dnf list cobbler
Available Packages
cobbler.src     3.0.1-2.el8 copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:orion:cobbler

# dnf install cobbler
No match for argument: cobbler

What then does this imply for us being able to provide a cobbler module 
(or just package) for EPEL?


1 - 
https://git.centos.org/modules/rhn-tools/blob/c8-stream-1.0/f/rhn-tools.yaml


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