[Pulp-list] Enable/Disable Repository Publishing

[Jason Dobies]

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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 :)
> 
> 
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