pulp / pulp/pulp_deb

Package Name Filters

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Description

Our organization has firewalls that quarantine certain packages that may be flagged as malicious. This returns a 403 error and causes the a repository sync to be incomplete. Currently the workaround is to use the "on_demand" mirror policy but it does not stop the error from happening if the quarantined package is attempted to be installed.

A possible solution would to allow filtering of certain package by name. Otherwise an option to continue past packages that are broken.

The alternatives considered is the workaround mentioned before with changing the mirror policy in the remote object to "on_demand"

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start by tracing repository sync handling for quarantined packages that return 403 errors, and compare it with the existing remote mirror policy behavior. Define how package-name filtering or continuing past broken packages should work, including what a completed sync should report when a package is skipped.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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