[Freeipa-devel] FreeIPA Copr repo plan

[Martin Kosek]

On 11/10/2014 04:22 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:07:46 +0100
> Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> 3) Scalability of the approach
>> Some dependencies are more difficult to maintain than the others.
>> Especially the PKI ones often required custom Java packaging
>> (resteasy-base) or a complicated dependency chain (the latest
>> jackson-jaxrs-json-provider). It would be great if PKI team helps
>> with this effort, as Lukas proposed. Downside is that mkosek/freeipa
>> installation would require 2 Copr repos. But maybe we could have a
>> job syncing the PKI build/runtime dependencies directly to FreeIPA
>> copr. Whatever works and scale.
> 
> Do we use the REST interface ?

Yes:
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=462beacc9d13968128fa320d155016df2d72a20a

And we plan to leverage it even more:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3473

IMO it is the right way instead of current HTML parsing approach.

> Would it be possible to simply build dogtag w/o it and avoid this
> massive set of annoying dependencies ?

Given above, unfortunately not.

Martin