[Pulp-list] Pulp updates

[Bryan Kearney]

Matthew Barr wrote:
> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>> a new component for Spacewalk (but can be used without Spacewalk) to 
>>> simplify and streamline the content synchronization process.
>>> How does that sound?
>>
>> Sounds good with the exception of cobbler.. since cobbler seems to 
>> doalot of the same voodoo around repo management. Especially since I 
>> assumed that there would be some cobbler <- Spacewalk integration.
>>
>> I am asking because for the thincrust tooling we would like an 
>> appliance build environment which needs this fucntionality but would 
>> also benefit from the provisioning provided by cobbler. I am curious 
>> where the repo logic is, or if it will be extracted out to a higher 
>> level piece.
> 
> 
> Hmm.. I'd love to see it as an option in Cobbler, too.  Let you select 
> repos for installation (like the current wget)  vs repo lines in the 
> kickstart. 
> 
> This functionality could be used by cobbler to deal w/ repos, especially 
> ones that aren't mirrored.  I haven't really thought about mirrored 
> ones, but that would probably be helped, too.



This is where my confusion is:

https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/UsingCobblerImport
https://fedorahosted.org/pulp/

Looks like similar repo management facilities. They diverge somewhat 
after that. Is there a base library for the repo management?

-- bk