On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, at 2:38 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > Hello all, > > I wanted to ask about having Pulp 3 land in Fedora. We've had Pulp 2 > in the distribution for several releases now (it was dropped in Fedora > 28~29). The new Pulp 3 stuff looks wicked cool and seems to be a vast > improvement over Pulp 2. With MongoDB being dropped in Fedora 30[1], > there's no longer an opportunity to run the current Pulp on Fedora. > > Moreover, Fedora has been aggressively moving to drop Python 2 > components[2] and has done so for more than half of all Python > components packaged in the distribution[3]. > > I had briefly discussed this with a few folks before, and they'd been > under the impression that packaging for Fedora would be difficult. On > the contrary, Python packaging in Fedora has never been easier! We now > have the ability to auto-generate runtime dependencies[4] (which can > also be activated on a per-spec basis in F28 and RHEL8) and an > excellent tool for auto-generating the spec files for packaging Python > software that is released to PyPI[5]. > > I would love to see Pulp reintroduced to Fedora now so that it could > debut with the Fedora 30 release. It could also be interesting to see > if we could leverage the new Pulp 3 in Fedora infrastructure for RPMs, > OSTrees, and Docker containers in place of the hodgepodge of things we > have now. I've heard good things about how Pulp 3 is developing, and > I'd love to see it available on Fedora so I could use it there too. :) > > What do you all think? >
Sounds great to me! (But I don't currently have time to do the work) V/r, James Cassell > Best regards, > Neal > > [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MongoDB_Removal > [2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal > [3]: https://fedora.portingdb.xyz/ > [4]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnablingPythonGeneratorsByDefault > [5]: https://github.com/fedora-python/pyp2rpm > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ Pulp-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-dev
