[Pulp-list] Enable/Disable Repository Publishing

[John Matthews]

----- "Jason Dobies" <jason.dobies at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On 10/18/2010 04:36 PM, Jason L Connor wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 15:19 -0400, John Matthews wrote:
> >> Please take a look at the below Wiki for thoughts on implementing 
> >> "Repository Publishing".
> >> https://fedorahosted.org/pulp/wiki/RepositoryPublishing
> >>
> >> The intent of this feature is to enable/disable publishing of a 
> >> repository through Apache.  If a repo is 'published', then it is 
> >> available through Apache.  If it is not published it won't be
> available 
> >> through Apache.
> >>
> >> I'd like some input for what the team thinks would be good for
> actually 
> >> implementing the logic for enable/disable.  We came up with two
> thoughts:
> >>   1) Add logic to the PythonAuthenHandler to lookup the publish
> flag 
> >> from mongo for each request
> > 
> > Just a comment here: I don't think that hitting mongo is any more
> > expensive that setting up a tcp connection, so I don't think
> performance
> > is really an issue.
> > 
> > That said I still like the 2nd approach better.
> 
> Even if it's not more painful than setting up a TCP connection, with
> the
> magnitude of packages and expected users, I don't think that's a
> per-request cost we want to bite off.
> 
> I'm also +1 to #2.
> 
> >>   2) Manipulate symbolic links under the directory serving content
> >>
> > 
> > I like this approach better in that it keeps the required logic to
> a
> > minimum and uses mechanism provided for us by the platform.
> > 
> > So, in conclusion, +1 to #2 :)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 

Thanks to everyone for the feedback.

#2 is the popular choice, I'll get started on it.