On Jul 5, 2013, at 2:53 PM, Michael Hrivnak <[email protected]> wrote:

> Robert,
> 
> pulp_deb is definitely incomplete. As far as I know, one of the biggest 
> blockers for its completion is that python-apt is completely broken in EPEL 
> and Fedora. Try to "import apt" and watch it explode. The package maintainer 
> has been mostly MIA, plus it's using a very old version of libapt.
> 
> pulp_deb is a community undertaking that the main Pulp team at Red Hat has 
> not (yet) worked on. However, we are very interested in supporting anyone who 
> is interested in working on it, as there is quite a bit of community demand 
> for it.
> 
> That said, I haven't looked very closely at the code. If you or anyone else 
> is interested in putting some substantial effort into it, I'd be happy to 
> talk in detail about what generally needs to be done, and possibly go through 
> the existing code to see where it stands. You should probably contact Endre 
> directly to see what his take is on the code's state.
> 
> Lastly, I apologize for our embarrassingly-incorrect python package versions. 
> Sadly, the versions in our setup.py files have been neglected and in this 
> case are not at all reliable. That's high on my priority list of things to 
> fix.
> 
> Thanks for your interest.
> 
> Michael Hrivnak



Hi Michael,
Thank you for the information. I emailed Endre a few weeks ago, and have not 
heard back.

I will review python-apt and libapt and try to build some updated packages.


I began reviewing the code in pulp_deb, and it looks like pulp_deb used 
pulp_puppet as a template. However, I don't understand some of the conventions, 
and there isn't any documentation in Endre's repo.

Do you think it would be easier to start a new plugin, or to continue working 
with Endre's code? What is the best way to get started writing a new pulp 
plugin from scratch?



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