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theforeman / foreman-ansible-modules

Ansible modules for interacting with the Foreman API and various plugin APIs such as Katello
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add how to create metadata.json to content_export_library/repository/version #1717

Open evgeni opened 3 months ago

evgeni commented 3 months ago
SUMMARY

For an export to be usable, it needs a metadata.json (see content_export_info), but the examples do not mention that, or the info module at all, leaving users with unusable exports.

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sayan3296 commented 2 months ago

To add on, In case the format is syncable, We need to generate listing files in the exported content. When using hammer i.e. 

hammer content-export complete library --organization-id 1 --format syncable

It takes care of the export and then does the generate-listing as well as generate-metadata action on that export but when using the redhat.satellite.content_export_* ansible modules [ or their foreman alternatives ], The listing files are not generated at all [ also the metadata file ].

metadata + listing files -> both needed when we want to import the data via hammer content-import listing files only --> Needed when we want to copy the syncable export data in a webserver and use it as a Custom CDN to sync the data from.