Pulp plugin for managing Python packages

[Honza Horak]

Thanks for the info, that seems much better to me comparing to 
several-different-repos approach. I also see Maven repo support in the 
roadmap matrix [1] but that one probably is not even started.

[1] http://www.pulpproject.org/roadmap/

Honza

On 10/28/2014 09:47 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I actually opened up my Pulp devel mailing list folder for the first
> time in a while, and the first thing I saw was that they're currently
> working on a plugin for Python packages: https://github.com/pulp/pulp_python
>
> One of the things that has been worrying me about the idea of language
> specific package repos is the sheer complexity of managing them all.
> (The fact Slavek found 35 new packages he'd need to respin as RPMs to
> deploy devpi for the pilot did nothing whatsoever to reassure me...)
>
> For those that aren't aware, Pulp is a plugin based repository
> management system written in Python, where the different repositories
> can all share common infrastructure for things like scheduling updates,
> uploading new content, and mirroring files out to remote sites, but
> publish content in a way that can be consumed by application specific
> packaging tools (it's actually one of the upstream projects for Red Hat
> Satellite 6+).
>
> The already released plugins cover RPMs and Puppet modules, but in
> addition to the Python support mentioned above, there's also
> experimental modules for Docker image registry support.
>
> I've actually used Pulp before (version 1 though, when the plugin model
> was still in alpha), and rather liked their approach, as well as finding
> their dev team quite easy to work. I hadn't previously thought of it in
> the context of language specific repositories for Fedora, but now that I
> have, I'll explore the idea further.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>