[Pulp-list] Pulp ISO repo

[White, Marcus O. (GSFC-423.0)[RAYTHEON CO]]

Hello Randy,

Thank you for the infoŠ

Marcus O. White








On 1/18/16, 4:08 PM, "pulp-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Randy
Barlow" <pulp-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of rbarlow at redhat.com>
wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 07:19:17PM +0000, White, Marcus O.
>(GSFC-423.0)[RAYTHEON CO] wrote:
>> I¹ve read the doc¹s on creating an ISO repo, but what is the purpose
>>for creating such a repo?
>
>Hello Marcus!
>
>The ISO repo is capable of a few things:
>
>0) Red Hat distributes its ISOs in an ISO repository, which Pulp can
>sync with this plugin type.
>
>1) You can push your own ISOs into Pulp and distribute them similarly.
>
>2) Technically, Pulp does not check or care that the ISOs are really ISO
>files. Therefore, you can push arbitrary files into these repos and Pulp
>will happily publish them with a PULP_MANIFEST file and is also able to
>sync them from Pulp to Pulp. You could use this to mirror png files,
>flac files, or whatever you like!
>
>Hope that helps!
>
>-- 
>Randy Barlow
>irc:   bowlofeggs