<div dir="ltr">We use it weekly as part of a business process that takes a core subset 15 repos out of around 100, and exports a time window of updates for transfer across an airgap. We like this feature and would have to figure out how to re-create it in-house if it wasn't part of Pulp 3. We run bare Pulp, so Katello doesn't factor for us.<div><br></div><div> - Kodiak</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 3:44 PM Ben Stanley <<a href="mailto:ben.stanley@gmail.com">ben.stanley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u> <div> <div dir="auto"> <div dir="auto">I tried export_distributor, but I found it to be too slow for my needs. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I need to export ALL my repos, and I have about 800. Exporting causes many RPMs to be replicated, so the storage requirements explode for me.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I gave up using export_distributor. Instead, I now run pulp inside a virtual machine and I copy the whole virtual machine. This method avoids RPM replication, and has proved to be much faster than <span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12pt">export_distributor.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Ben Stanley. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div> <div id="gmail-m_3443289752805374924aqm-original" style="color:black"> <div class="gmail-m_3443289752805374924aqm-original-body"> <div style="color:black"> <p style="color:black;font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif;margin:8pt 0px">On 10 June 2019 10:57:37 pm Tatiana Tereshchenko <<a href="mailto:ttereshc@redhat.com" target="_blank">ttereshc@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.75ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(128,128,128);padding-left:0.75ex"> <div dir="ltr"><div>As you probably know, we are in the process of designing a tool which will provide a way to migrate from Pulp 2 to Pulp 3, so we will ask you for feedback every now and then.</div><div><br></div><div>Export distributor [0] is used for generating ISO images which can contain one or more RPM or File (ISO plugin in Pulp 2 terms) repositories in it. This distributor is also used to export a repository into a specific directory on a filesystem.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please, let us know if you use export_distributor:</div><div>0. Do you use Pulp directly or through Katello? This thread is more relevant for those who use Pulp directly.<br></div><div>1. What is the scale? E.g. "I use it for 10% of all my repositories, ~50 repositories." <br></div><div>2. Do you export into an ISO or to a directory? Or both?<br></div><div>3. Is it important that export_distributors and their configuration are migrated to Pulp3? E.g. "It would be nice-to-have, not critical, I export very few repositories."</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Tanya</div><div><br></div><div></div><div>[0] <a href="https://docs.pulpproject.org/plugins/pulp_rpm/tech-reference/export-distributor.html" target="_blank">https://docs.pulpproject.org/plugins/pulp_rpm/tech-reference/export-distributor.html</a></div></div> <div>_______________________________________________</div> <div>Pulp-list mailing list</div> <div><a class="gmail-m_3443289752805374924aqm-autolink gmail-m_3443289752805374924aqm-autowrap" href="mailto:Pulp-list%40redhat.com" target="_blank">Pulp-list@redhat.com</a></div> <div><a class="gmail-m_3443289752805374924aqm-autolink gmail-m_3443289752805374924aqm-autowrap" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list</a></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div><div dir="auto"><br></div> </div></div> _______________________________________________<br> Pulp-list mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Pulp-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">Pulp-list@redhat.com</a><br> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list</a></blockquote></div>