Hi Alan, 

> immediate - download files on sync 
> on_demand - download when a client requests a file the first time 
> background - doesn't immediate technically happen "in the background" 

I believe you are correct in your assessment here. In my opinion the trade offs 
would be: 

immediate - requires more disk space for packages that you may never 
install/update 
on_demand - potential delay the first time a package is requested, problems if 
the upstream happens to be down/corrupted when you need the package 
background - same issue as immediate plus a bit more work to have confidence in 
the current state of your product repos 

I use on_demand for my products (a full suite of CentOS 6/7, OEL 6/7, EPEL 6/7, 
etc) and have been happy with it. I like to keep my Katello server as small as 
I can because it is a VM, the current backup strategies aren't ideal, so 
snapshots are used a lot. 

Regards, 

j 


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