Export Distributors

There are two export distributors. One that exports a single repository, and another that exports a repository group. The export distributors can export the repository or repository group as ISO images, or to the directory of your choice as one or more yum repositories. The repository distributor uses the ID export_distributor. The repository group distributor uses the ID group_export_distributor. Exported repository ISOs will be published over HTTP or HTTPS at the path /pulp/exports/repo/<repo-id>/, and exported repository group ISOs can be found at /pulp/exports/repo_group/<group-id>/.

Configuration Parameters

The following options are available when configuring the export distributors.

Required Configuration Parameters

http

Flag indicating if the generated ISO will be served over a non-SSL connection. Valid values to this option are True and False. This option is required.

https

Flag indicating if the generated ISO will be served over an SSL connection. Valid values to this option are True and False. This option is required.

Optional Configuration Parameters

start_date

Any content that was associated with the repository before this date will be excluded in the generated ISO. Furthermore, the incremental export process exports errata and rpm metadata as JSON documents, and no repo metadata is generated. The date should be in standard ISO8601 format. For example, “2010-01-01T12:00:00”.

end_date

Any content that was associated with the repository after this date will be excluded in the generated ISO. Furthermore, the incremental export process exports errata and rpm metadata as JSON documents, and no repo metadata is generated. The date should be in standard ISO8601 format. For example, “2010-01-01T12:00:00”.

iso_prefix

Prefix to be used in naming the generated ISO. The ISO will be named like this: <prefix>-<timestamp>-<disc_number>.iso. The default is the repository or group id. The prefix should only contain alphanumeric characters, dashes, and underscores.

skip

List of content types to skip during the creation of the ISO. If unspecified, all types will be published. Valid values are: rpm, drpm, srpm, distribution, package_group, and erratum.

iso_size

An integer, which is the maximum size of the generated ISO images in megabytes. In this case, 1 megabyte is 1 * 1024 * 1024 bytes. This will default to 4380 megabytes (4380 * 1024 * 1024 bytes, to be exact) if it is not specified, which should fit on a single layer DVD.

export_dir

A full path to an export directory. If this option is specified, the repositories are not placed in ISO images and published over HTTP or HTTPS. Instead, they are written to the export directory. This option is useful if exporting to an external hard drive, for example.

relative_url

Relative path at which the repository will be served when exported. If this option is specified with

export_dir, this will become the exported subdirectory name instead of the default, which is the

repository id.

manifest

If this boolean is True, a PULP_MANIFEST file will be created in the directory where ISOs are created. This allows the ISO importer to directly import what was published. Defaults to False.

checksum_type

Checksum type to use for metadata generation. For any units where the checksum of this type is not already known, it will be computed on-the-fly and saved for future use. If any such units have not been downloaded, then checksum calculation is impossible, and the publish will fail gracefully.