I think your plan is spot-on. In usually makes sense to have a 1-1 mapping
of remote repos to pulp repos, and to keep the pulp repo as a simple mirror
of that remote repo. From there, you can copy out of the pulp-hosted
mirrors to compose new repos with whatever mix of content you like.

Michael

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> As part of a development workflow idea for the Fedora Environments &
> Stacks working group [1], I'm looking to build a service that lets
> people select multiple COPR repos, and have them automatically
> integrated into a single downstream repo.
>
> As a starting point, I'm aiming to build the simplest possible proof
> of concept: take two existing COPR repos, and configure Pulp to
> download and republish all of their content as a single combined repo.
>
> I mistakenly thought I could do this just by adding multiple importers
> to a single Pulp repository, but discovered today that Pulp doesn't
> actually support doing that - the importer:repository mapping is 1:1.
> Finding out I didn't know Pulp's capability's as well as I thought
> made me realise I should ask here for advice before proceeding further
> :)
>
> My current thinking is that my architecture will need to look something
> like:
>
> 1. For any COPR repo I want to merge, configure a local mirror in Pulp
> that imports the content from that repo. These would be system
> managed, so there's only ever one local mirror per remote repo.
> 2. For each funnel, configure a dedicated target repo, and create
> event listeners on the relevant mirror repos that trigger a content
> unit copy whenever the mirror repos are updated
>
> Does that general approach sound reasonable? Are there simpler
> alternatives that I've missed?
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
> [1]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Env_and_Stacks/Projects/SoftwareComponentPipeline
>
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncogh...@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
>
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