Story #5086
Updated by ipanova@redhat.com over 5 years ago
h3. Problem
To allow offline update or installation, as well as "cheap" hosting on a "dumb" http file server, export of pulp distribution
is required. Pulp2 has this in the manual https://docs.pulpproject.org/en/2.18/plugins/pulp_rpm/user-guide/recipes.html#export-repositories-and-repository-groups
h3. Design
In Pulp3 an 'exporter' can send content out of a Pulp system. An exporter named FileSystemExporter should be created that accepts the full path to the place it should export. Additionally the FileSystemExporter takes either a 'repository' or 'repository_version' but not both. If 'repository' it will publish the latest repository_version.
+note+ Explore the possibility to export from multiple repos
h3. Implementation
It will write the entire repository to a temporary area on-disk and then shell out to rsync.
h3. On Demand Content
This feature does not work for on-demand content because the content must be present locally for Pulp to write it to a filesystem.
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