Bug 1388927

Summary:	[RFE] As a user, I want to trigger a "background sync" for repositories in content view versions.
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	Tom McKay <tomckay>
Component:	Repositories	Assignee:	satellite6-bugs <satellite6-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Katello QA List <katello-qa-list>
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Priority:	high
Version:	6.2.0	CC:	bbuckingham, bkearney, brubisch, jsherril, peter.vreman, satellite6-bugs, sreber
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Target Release:	Unused
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Description Tom McKay 2016-10-26 13:32:23 UTC

The use case:
1. Sync "RHEL 7Server" repo in on-demand download policy
2. Create a CV w/ filters to reduce packages from 14000 to 4
3. Publish CV to get CVV 1.0
4. Attempting to export CVV 1.0 will error since the packages have not yet been downloaded

I would like to be able to force pulp to download the 4 packages in that repo. This is equivalent to a "background" download policy in results.

I am not defining how this is implemented but would like to see it either at the repository level or at the content view version level. Something like this

<pre>
hammer content-view version synchronize --id 12
</pre>

Comment 1 Tom McKay 2016-10-26 13:32:27 UTC

Created from redmine issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/14385

Comment 3 Peter Vreman 2016-10-26 14:28:52 UTC

As a user is have another use case that is similiar.
During deployment i do not want any dependency on the RedHat CDN. Once i publish a ContentView then i want that all RPMs are available after the publishing finishes.

This makes sure that my Satellite always have all RPMs available for all published ContentViews.
But from the CDN downloads on all used packages and therefor improves the initial sync time to not download GBs of unused packcages, e.g. old kernel versions that will never be published to any host.

Comment 4 Peter Vreman 2016-10-26 14:30:51 UTC

For this use case a proposed download_policy name is 'published'

Comment 9 Bryan Kearney 2017-10-12 19:30:13 UTC

Thank you for your interest in Satellite 6. We have evaluated this request, and we do not expect this to be implemented in product in the forseeable future. We are therefore closing this out as WONTFIX. If you have any concerns about this, please feel free to contact Rich Jerrido or Bryan Kearney. Thank you.