indygreg / indygreg/PyOxidizer

Consider using existing library "rpmrepo_metadata" for reading RPM repository metadata

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Description

https://github.com/dralley/rpmrepo_metadata/

Disclosure: I wrote this library

To my knowledge it is the most complete implementation that currently exists in Rust by a large margin and I'd welcome further contributions. Updateinfo support is not 100% complete yet, nor is writing repository metadata, nor the documentation, but parsing the standard metadata is essentially done and decently tested.

I haven't put out a release on crates.io yet, because I have mostly been using it for a personal project and didn't realize there was much demand (and also I became a maintainer of quick-xml and got sidetracked fixing bugs in that library that I ran into...), but I can fix that shortly.

Also note that despite the example in README.md using the Python bindings, the Rust API is complete.

edit: Now fixed. https://crates.io/crates/rpmrepo_metadata

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked rpmrepo_metadata library and locating PyOxidizer's existing RPM repository metadata handling. Determine which metadata parsing or integration work is still needed, then verify the result against the project's packaging tests; the issue does not name specific files or tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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