📦 Advice on packaging azure-cli

[Major Hayden]

👋🏻 Hello there,

I'm eager to package Azure's CLI tools for Fedora that would allow users 
to manage their Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. This would help 
with CI/CD, information security, monitoring, and of course, deployments.

However, these cloud tools are a bit tricky to package. There are a few 
python components in the main repository[0] that make up the CLI itself:

   azure-cli
   azure-cli-core
   azure-cli-telemetry

Those seem fairly straightforward, but things get complicated because 
those three depend on *plenty* of little SDK components from another 
repository[1]. That repository contains over 220 SDK components that all 
release independently from the same git repository. They also have 
dependencies on some other bits of python that are already packaged for 
Fedora, such as cffi, cryptography, and PyYAML.

To make things a bit more complicated, the core CLI tools have strict 
dependencies on specific versions of the SDK components. For example:

     'azure-mgmt-datamigration~=4.1.0',
     'azure-mgmt-deploymentmanager~=0.2.0',
     'azure-mgmt-devtestlabs~=4.0',
     'azure-mgmt-dns~=8.0.0',

At first glance, that doesn't seem too bad since the versions of the 
core CLI tools and SDK versions move in tandem in the repositories. SDK 
components are constantly moving forward, but the CLI releases are tied 
to specific SDK component versions which do not change after release.

The dependency tree is fairly long[2], but it's also fairly standard 
between most of the SDKs.

I have several questions here:

   1) Should I make separate Fedora packages/specs for each CLI
      component and the SDK components? The SDK components look
      nearly identical from a packaging standpoint (no executables
      there, just libraries in each). If so, that would be about
      80-100 packages to make and maintain.

   2) Should I 'vendor' the SDK components into a single package and
      set it as a dependency of the core CLI tools?

   3) Should I dynamically generate spec files for the SDK components
      based on the requirements from the main CLI tools?

   4) Am I making this much, much more difficult than it really is? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Thanks in advance for any guidance you have. 🤗

[0] https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli
[1] https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python
[2] https://gist.github.com/major/821e2f90c8a2b6111a42e35503caa3ad

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Major Hayden