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>
Created from redmine issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/14385
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.
For this use case a proposed download_policy name is 'published'
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.