Support SaltStack formula metadata

[westurner]

So, TBH, I think JSON-LD would be preferable here. (in order to avoid needing to run setup.py; but do we need to reimplement python/conda packaging?)

Probably wouldn't even need an JSON-LD lib with a defined formula schema vocabulary context.

• https://westurner.org/wiki/tools
  • https://westurner.org/tools/#packages # various packaging systems (conda, portage, dnf)
  • https://wrdrd.com/docs/tools/#json-ld # attrs which could/would be useful for a manifest with metadata
  • https://text.allmende.io/p/rdfjs "Tools Schema" (DOAP, schema.org/SoftwareApplication, schema.org/code)

[westurner]

Value of JSON-LD:

• it's JSON which is also a valid RDF graph, that maps to shareable attributes with URIs, which link between nodes in a defined way {'type:'@id'}
• show me conflicts / synergies:
  • formula-abc a implements/provides pkgA, pkgB, pkgC
  • formula-ay implements/provides/manages pkgA, pkgY
• link me to the homepage, docs, download, source, CHANGELOG/whatsnew

[arnisoph]

thanks for your thoughts! it might be reasonable to implement dependency management outside of gathergit (which I need for simple git repo compilation for Salt and Puppet).

[arnisoph]

I plan to have (at least) two ways to deploy Salt/ Puppet environments:

• pinning versions in https://github.com/bechtoldt/GatherGit/blob/master/config.dist/deployments.yaml
• intelligent dependency resolution using a -more or less- well known package format that can be handled by the most of the Salt users

Defining a metadata scheme will require some user discussions to get as many people as possible to use this scheme.

[westurner]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Arnold Bechtoldt notifications@github.com wrote:

I plan to have (at least) two ways to deploy Salt/ Puppet environments:

• pinning versions in https://github.com/bechtoldt/GatherGit/blob/master/config.dist/deployments.yaml
• intelligent dependency resolution using a -more or less- well known package format that can be handled by the most of the Salt users

Defining a metadata scheme will require some user discussions to convince as many people as possible to use this scheme.

.json/.jsonld with {'name':'str', 'dependencies': ['uri1', 'name2']}

I wrote pyrpo, probably for a similar purpose (some things are not in git and I'd rather not fork): https://github.com/westurner/pyrpo (* [ ] submodules and -C, * [ ] partially-initialized commands whch error, https://github.com/westurner/pyrpo/issues )

You could probably easily generate a .yaml with pyrpo.

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[arnisoph]

The Salt Package Manager might be a solution for this issue in the future. I think it's still in a very early state. I'll file some feature requests.. :)

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/24896 (PR) https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/25210 https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/25211

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/spm/