On 25. 05. 21 14:29, Major Hayden wrote:
👋🏻 Hello there,
I'm eager to package Azure's CLI tools for Fedora that would allow users to
manage their Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. This would help with CI/CD,
information security, monitoring, and of course, deployments.
However, these cloud tools are a bit tricky to package. There are a few python
components in the main repository[0] that make up the CLI itself:
azure-cli
azure-cli-core
azure-cli-telemetry
Those seem fairly straightforward, but things get complicated because those
three depend on *plenty* of little SDK components from another repository[1].
That repository contains over 220 SDK components that all release independently
from the same git repository. They also have dependencies on some other bits of
python that are already packaged for Fedora, such as cffi, cryptography, and
PyYAML.
To make things a bit more complicated, the core CLI tools have strict
dependencies on specific versions of the SDK components. For example:
'azure-mgmt-datamigration~=4.1.0',
'azure-mgmt-deploymentmanager~=0.2.0',
'azure-mgmt-devtestlabs~=4.0',
'azure-mgmt-dns~=8.0.0',
At first glance, that doesn't seem too bad since the versions of the core CLI
tools and SDK versions move in tandem in the repositories. SDK components are
constantly moving forward, but the CLI releases are tied to specific SDK
component versions which do not change after release.
The dependency tree is fairly long[2], but it's also fairly standard between
most of the SDKs.
I have several questions here:
1) Should I make separate Fedora packages/specs for each CLI
component and the SDK components? The SDK components look
nearly identical from a packaging standpoint (no executables
there, just libraries in each). If so, that would be about
80-100 packages to make and maintain.
The culprit of trying to maintain them in one component is that they are
released independently. Maintaining various subpackages with different versions
and release cycles from the same spec file is a huge PITA.
However, so is maintaining 100 packages. There is no clear win. I'd personally
rather maintain the 100 packages with automatically generated build
dependencies, but I would not say it is a *should*.
Have a look at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pyproject-rpm-macros
2) Should I 'vendor' the SDK components into a single package and
set it as a dependency of the core CLI tools?
I'd say doing that is pretty much the same amount of work as maintaining a
single-spec multi-package beast mentioned above, but less user friendly.
3) Should I dynamically generate spec files for the SDK components
based on the requirements from the main CLI tools?
The spec files should be almost identical with just the
name/summary/description/version changing, so I'd say this is a way to go.
4) Am I making this much, much more difficult than it really is? 🤦🏻♂️
It is already difficult.
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