Currently, the only way to get a gen3 refcat is to ingest it into a gen2 repo an then convert it to gen3. IngestIndexedReferenceTask is a CmdLineTask, and we need a PipelineTask refcat ingester. Much of the internals are the same, so we can probably do it with a shared base class, but gen3 has additional information loaded into the registry about the shards, etc. that will take some care. The multiprocessing manager code, IngestIndexManager, may not be compatible with the gen3 multiprocessing system: it's designed to do all of its own multiprocessing internally, without an external controller.

These docs about how to ingest refcat data will probably be useful in putting together the gen3 code: https://pipelines.lsst.io/modules/lsst.meas.algorithms/creating-a-reference-catalog.html

I also wrote a custom Gaia ingester (IngestGaiaManager and IngestGaiaReferenceTask) to handle the gaia fluxes, which might be able to work "for free" with the new system.