[Feature Request] Package ubuntu-server-netboot as a python package

Description

Per our discussion on MM, we will package the tool as a python package so we could implement canonical unit-test sets for the tool more easily.

Possible Solution

With package management tool poetry, for example https://github.com/tai271828/ubuntu-server-netboot/tree/pr-poetry-python-package on top of https://github.com/dannf/ubuntu-server-netboot/pull/17

Additional Information

When the tool is ready to be a python package, we could begin to consider package and distribute it as a (python) debian package as well.

A testing python package has been uploaded to testing PyPI https://test.pypi.org/project/usn/ .

@dannf you may want to have a look of the package page on testing PyPI https://test.pypi.org/project/usn/ to see what else information you want to add or update. For example, some items pop up in my mind:

the python package name: should it be usn, ubuntu-server-netboot, or ...?
- the name will be used when invoking pip installation, for example, to install this test package from testing PyPI currently by pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ usn in a python virtual environment
project description is empty. I will use the current README later on.
I may also need your account user name on PyPI if you have, so I can add you in the list of project admin of the package.

Please note we need to use pip3 in a vanilla Ubuntu environment instead to install the package pip3 install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ usn and an extra PATH setup command to activate the cli.[1]

[1]

ubuntu@awrep6:~$ pip3 install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ usn
Looking in indexes: https://test.pypi.org/simple/
Collecting usn
  Downloading https://test-files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2d/b5/a16f3d1bbf8290f834c9a20fefe28553c398e871e1631c2a65ccfe749092/usn-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (6.7 kB)
Installing collected packages: usn
  WARNING: The script ubuntu-server-netboot is installed in '/home/ubuntu/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed usn-0.1.0
ubuntu@awrep6:~$ export PATH=$PATH:/home/ubuntu/.local/bin
ubuntu@awrep6:~$ ubuntu-server-netboot 
usage: ubuntu-server-netboot [-h] [-e EXTRA_ARGS] [--iso ISO] [-o OUT_DIR] --url URL [--autoinstall-url AUTOINSTALL_URL]
ubuntu-server-netboot: error: the following arguments are required: --url
ubuntu@awrep6:~$

A testing python package has been uploaded to testing PyPI https://test.pypi.org/project/usn/ .

Awesome!

@dannf you may want to have a look of the package page on testing PyPI https://test.pypi.org/project/usn/ to see what else information you want to add or update. For example, some items pop up in my mind:

the python package name: should it be usn, ubuntu-server-netboot, or ...?

Personally I'd vote for ubuntu-server-netboot, but I'm not picky if there's a reason to use usn.

the name will be used when invoking pip installation, for example, to install this test package from testing PyPI currently by pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ usn in a python virtual environment

project description is empty. I will use the current README later on.

I may also need your account user name on PyPI if you have, so I can add you in the list of project admin of the package.

I've just now created the account dannf

Please note we need to use pip3 in a vanilla Ubuntu environment instead to install the package pip3 install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ usn and an extra PATH setup command to activate the cli.[1]

ACK. Thanks!

[1]

ubuntu@awrep6:~$ pip3 install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ usn
Looking in indexes: https://test.pypi.org/simple/
Collecting usn
  Downloading https://test-files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2d/b5/a16f3d1bbf8290f834c9a20fefe28553c398e871e1631c2a65ccfe749092/usn-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (6.7 kB)
Installing collected packages: usn
  WARNING: The script ubuntu-server-netboot is installed in '/home/ubuntu/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed usn-0.1.0
ubuntu@awrep6:~$ export PATH=$PATH:/home/ubuntu/.local/bin
ubuntu@awrep6:~$ ubuntu-server-netboot 
usage: ubuntu-server-netboot [-h] [-e EXTRA_ARGS] [--iso ISO] [-o OUT_DIR] --url URL [--autoinstall-url AUTOINSTALL_URL]
ubuntu-server-netboot: error: the following arguments are required: --url
ubuntu@awrep6:~$

@dannf you may want to have a look of the package page on testing PyPI https://test.pypi.org/project/usn/ to see what else information you want to add or update. For example, some items pop up in my mind:

the python package name: should it be usn, ubuntu-server-netboot, or ...?

Personally I'd vote for ubuntu-server-netboot, but I'm not picky if there's a reason to use usn.

ubuntu-server-netboot is good to me. No, there is no reason to use usn. The name usn is automatically generated by poetry by default. We are free to change it anytime we want.

the name will be used when invoking pip installation, for example, to install this test package from testing PyPI currently by pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ usn in a python virtual environment

project description is empty. I will use the current README later on.

I may also need your account user name on PyPI if you have, so I can add you in the list of project admin of the package.

I've just now created the account dannf

ACK. I will loop you into the admin group after the package is released to the production PyPI. I will create another PR to polish the look of PyPI page and re-upload again after this pull request is completed https://github.com/dannf/ubuntu-server-netboot/pull/21 .

dannf / ubuntu-server-netboot