Task #8280
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Investigate using librepo for downloading from RPM repositories
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Description
Librepo is the "official" library for downloading RPM repositories, it has built-in support for mirrorlist, metalink, gpg checking, proxies, picking the fastest mirror, speed limits and so forth. This could potentially eliminate a fair bit of complexity and code that we otherwise have to handle ourselves.
It's a C library but it has Python bindings. It may or may not be suitable given that we don't necessarily want to bypass the "remote" infrastructure.
Related issues
Updated by dalley about 3 years ago
- Subject changed from Investigate using librepo for downloading RPM repositories to Investigate using librepo for downloading from RPM repositories
Updated by dalley over 2 years ago
- Related to Story #9131: As an administrator, I'd like RPM repository syncs from mirrorlists to be able to use multiple mirrors in the event of download failures added
Updated by dalley over 2 years ago
- Status changed from NEW to CLOSED - WONTFIX
My opinion is that we'd truly be better off re-implementing librepo than trying to go through the effort of producing a viable Python package and trying to use it.
The API is terrible, even by the standards of a C library which is trying to support a ton of different use cases at once. We can absolutely do better because it would be hard to do worse.
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