[Pulp-list] Re-sync of existing repo

Pradeep Kilambi pkilambi at redhat.com
Tue Nov 1 13:54:05 UTC 2011


On 11/01/2011 05:33 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when I delete pulp-database and sync a repo that has been synced 
> already, everything is fast (not downloading RPM files), but when 
> there is a kickstart tree Pulp is downloading everything it again 
> (e.g. 100 MB for Fedora).
>
> Are there any plans to handle kickstart trees the similar way as 
> packages (files stored by content with links)?
>
> It's apparently not a blocker and I could setup a proxy for my 
> recurrent tests, but it would be a nice feature ;-)
>
> LZ
>

Thats how we do it now. Not sure what build you're on, but if you have 
the latest QE build, kickstart trees are only downloaded once and 
symlinked. This functionality should be in the upcoming community 
release as well.

~ Prad




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