<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks, Dennis, for the clarification. I've now setup repos in Pulp pointing to the 2 new kickstart feeds, with --relative-url set to "ks/rhel5/x86_64" and "ks/rhel6/x86_64". The repos synced just fine and I'm now showing both the 5.10 and 6.5 distributions. </div><div>However, when I go to kickstart a 5.10 server, it is failing with errors about not being able to download the packages from <a href="http://my-pulp-server/repos/ks/rhel5/x86_64//Server/" target="_blank">http://my-pulp-server/repos/ks/rhel5/x86_64//Server/</a><specific-rpm> </div><div>This makes sense, because there are no RPMs under Server. The published Pulp repo tree looks like this: ks/rhel5/x86_64/ <div style="margin-left:40px">images/ </div><div style="margin-left:80px"> pxeboot/ </div><div style="margin-left:40px">Packages -> /var/lib/pulp/working/repos/live-rhel-5-x86_64-ks/distributors/yum_distributor </div><div style="margin-left:40px">repodata/ </div><div style="margin-left:40px">Server/ </div><div style="margin-left:80px">repodata/ </div><div style="margin-left:80px"><div style="margin-left:40px"><links to files under /var/lib/pulp/content/distribution/ks-Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server-5.10-x86_64/Server/repodata/> </div></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><some-rpm-1> </div><div style="margin-left:40px"><some-rpm-2> <...> </div><div style="margin-left:40px"> </div> </div><div>All the RPMs are accessible either under the ks/rhel5/x86_64/ top level, or under ks/rhel5/x86_64/Packages (why are they in 2 locations, anyway?) - but not under Server. So the distribution Server/repodata files are wrong. </div><div>Not sure if this is an upstream problem or a Pulp problem. FWIW, the primary.xml.gz under the 5.9 distribution seems to point to location href="../Packages/<specific-rpm>" for all the packages, while the 5.10 distribution just points to location href="<specific-rpm>". </div><div>Any thoughts? </div><div>Christina </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Dennis Gregorovic <<a href="mailto:dgregor@redhat.com" target="_blank">dgregor@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, This is actually intentional. As of 6.5 we have moved the kickstart content into a separate repo. Having the installation files intermixed with errata and update RPMs all under os/ was not a clean model. Apologies for not announcing this to pulp-list before; I didn't realize that folks were actually syncing the "distributions" from <a href="http://cdn.redhat.com" target="_blank">cdn.redhat.com</a>. So, the path that you now want to use is: <a href="https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6.5/x86_64/kickstart/" target="_blank">https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6.5/x86_64/kickstart/</a> <a href="https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5.10/x86_64/kickstart/" target="_blank">https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5.10/x86_64/kickstart/</a> The kickstart repos are there for all variants, arches, and minor releases of RHEL back to 5.7 and 6.1. Cheers -- Dennis <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 18:27 +0000, Baird, Josh wrote: > Arnold, > > Do you have BZ id for this issue? I would like to follow this case as well. There may be a chance some of the RH guys here can get that escalated. :) > > Thanks, > > Josh > > -----Original Message----- > From: <a href="mailto:pulp-list-bounces@redhat.com">pulp-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pulp-list-bounces@redhat.com">pulp-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Arnold Bechtoldt > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 1:26 PM > To: <a href="mailto:pulp-list@redhat.com">pulp-list@redhat.com</a> > Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] Questions about "distributions" and "yum repo metadata files" > > Hi Christina, > > We do have a similar issue on RHEL 6.5 which RHEL 6/ 6Server should also point to. > > The file <a href="https://cdn.redhat.com/.../x86_64/treeinfo" target="_blank">https://cdn.redhat.com/.../x86_64/treeinfo</a> is present on RHEL > 6.4 but on RHEL 6.5 (aka 6) it's missing. As you may already know this file contains some special data like the path and metadata to the images/ folder which itself is necessary to kickstart. > > We already have reported it to Red Hat but they're still debugging the problem for days... > > > The RHEL6 repo didn't have any errors on the sync but still no > > distribution - is showed 0/0 items for Tree Files. > > > Yours sincerely, > > Arnold > > -- > Arnold Bechtoldt > Magdeburger Str. 29 > 76139 Karlsruhe > Germany > > Am 16.12.13 17:12, schrieb Christina Plummer: > > Hi Barnaby, > > > > Thanks a lot for your reply - I got swamped last week and didn't get > > an opportunity to circle back on this until today, so I apologize for > > the delay. > > 1. I am still trying to understand what a "distribution" is. It > > sounds like what defines a distribution is the existence of an > > upstream treeinfo file - is that right? Why would a repository > > created from install media not also be a distribution? Is there just > > no method for importing boot images at this point? > > 2. When you say that distributions are required for kickstart - is > > that just if you need to use PXE to boot? If you were booting in some > > other way, I can't think why the treeinfo, etc. would be required for install. > > 3. Regarding the "Yum Metadata Files" - so those would only exist if > > the upstream repositority had a repomd/ directory - not a repodata/ ? > > When I create a new repo and publish it, there is (of course) a > > repodata/ created - what is the difference between this and "Yum Metadata Files" > > as listed by Pulp? > > 4. I don't see any treeinfo in the Oracle upstream repository, so that > > makes sense that I don't have a distribution there. > > 5. I can't easily browse the Red Hat repositories, due to the > > certificates required - I would expect that the 5.10 and 6.5 > > distributions would be there now, but when I sync I am not getting > > them. It also looks like I had 5.9 and 6.4 at one time (based on the > > files under /var/lib/pulp/content/distributions), but as you can see > > from my repolist output below, the 6.4 distribution is not being > > listed any more. > > > > I made a copy of everything (including the distribution) from my RHEL6 > > repo before I synced it on 12/2 (the last time it was synced before > > that was probably September). The copied repo still shows the 6.4 > > distribution present. But the one that is fed from RH no longer has > > that one - and 6.5 is not there either. > > > > Slightly differently, my RHEL5 repo seems to contain the 5.9 > > distribution, but 5.10 hasn't shown up. My feed URLs are: > > <a href="https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os" target="_blank">https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os</a> > > <a href="https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6Server/x86_64/os" target="_blank">https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6Server/x86_64/os</a> > > > > I did get some 404 errors when I tried to sync RHEL5 again this > > morning on these files, though it showed "Tree Files: 6/6 items": > > <a href="https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se" target="_blank">https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se</a> > > rver/repodata/908500781155e417f50c845157ee922d22008961-primary.sqlite. > > bz2 > > <a href="https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se" target="_blank">https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se</a> > > rver/repodata/4ec225f636e39c137f8330c4ac2618f0020e85d6-other.xml.gz > > <a href="https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se" target="_blank">https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se</a> > > rver/repodata/<a href="http://53939e47b5c6e5e960f18fc7c209d60ce37ccc01-other.sqlite.bz" target="_blank">53939e47b5c6e5e960f18fc7c209d60ce37ccc01-other.sqlite.bz</a> > > 2 > > <a href="https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se" target="_blank">https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se</a> > > rver/repodata/d984304da8889ba9e906d8a0455418f4b7edc206-primary.xml.gz > > <a href="https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se" target="_blank">https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se</a> > > rver/repodata/101ecad62a146f3ab4e06ca16104cdb90b225a48-filelists.xml.g > > z > > > > The RHEL6 repo didn't have any errors on the sync but still no > > distribution - is showed 0/0 items for Tree Files. > > > > Please let me know if I can provide more information that would be helpful. > > > > Thanks, > > Christina > > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Barnaby Court <<a href="mailto:bcourt@redhat.com">bcourt@redhat.com</a> > > <mailto:<a href="mailto:bcourt@redhat.com">bcourt@redhat.com</a>>> wrote: > > > > Hi Chris, > > > > You have a few questions in here so I'll try to hit all of them. V2 > > definitely supports distributions. Distributions are required for > > kickstart. I'm not sure why you would be seeing the listing for a > > distribution type if there is no treeinfo file in the upstream > > repository. If you have a treeinfo file in the upstream repository > > you should have a distribution created in your repository in pulp. > > Copying the distribution from one repo to another should work. > > Creating a distribution by hand and uploading to a repository in > > pulp is not currently supported. However, if the upstream > > repository has a distribution it should be synced automatically and > > can then be copied from one pulp-repo to another. > > > > API information about distributions can be found at: > > > > <a href="http://pulp-rpm-dev-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/yum-plugins.html#d" target="_blank">http://pulp-rpm-dev-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/yum-plugins.html#d</a> > > istribution > > > > The yum repo metadata files (generally) are the files in the > > /repomd/ subdirectory of a repository. They contain information > > about the repository ant its contents. > > > > My primary concern would be if you are syncing a repo that has a > > treeinfo or .treeinfo file upstream and you are not getting a > > distribution in your pulp repo. RHEL 6.4 absolutely does have a > > treeinfo included in the CDN and we use it for testing regularly. > > If you are running into trouble there I definitely want to know > > about it. > > > > Regards, > > > > Barnaby > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Christina Plummer" <<a href="mailto:cplummer@gmail.com">cplummer@gmail.com</a> > > <mailto:<a href="mailto:cplummer@gmail.com">cplummer@gmail.com</a>>> > > To: <a href="mailto:pulp-list@redhat.com">pulp-list@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:pulp-list@redhat.com">pulp-list@redhat.com</a>> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:47:07 AM > > Subject: [Pulp-list] Questions about "distributions" and "yum repo > > metadata files" > > > > Hello all, > > > > I am using Pulp 2.1.3. I've created a few feeds synced from vendor > > repos (Oracle and Red Hat), and then have been creating clones > > (copies) of those repos to use as a stable "patch set" for each > > release by copying each of the content types. I've noticed that the > > repos synced from Red Hat display content types of "Distribution" > > and "Yum Repo Metadata File", while the ones from Oracle do not. > > Also, I've noticed that the RHEL5 repo actually contains a > > Distribution, while the RHEL6 repo shows the content type but with a > > count of 0: > > > > Id: live-rhel-6-x86_64-os > > Display Name: live-rhel-6-x86_64-os > > Description: None > > Content Unit Counts: > > Distribution: 0 > > Erratum: 2228 > > Package Category: 10 > > Package Group: 201 > > Rpm: 3788 > > Yum Repo Metadata File: 1 > > > > I found these files: > > /var/lib/pulp/content/distribution/ks-Red Hat Enterprise Linux > > Server-5.9-x86_64/treeinfo > > /var/lib/pulp/content/distribution/ks-Red Hat Enterprise > > Linux-Server-6.4-x86_64/treeinfo > > > > I found this documentation from Pulp v1 discussing Distributions: > > <a href="http://www.pulpproject.org/ug/UGDistributions.html" target="_blank">http://www.pulpproject.org/ug/UGDistributions.html</a> > > <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/pulp/wiki/UGRepo" target="_blank">https://fedorahosted.org/pulp/wiki/UGRepo</a> > > > > But I couldn't find any reference to Distributions or Yum Repo > > Metadata Files in the Pulp v2 documentation at all. > > > > Is there a good explanation of these somewhere? Do I need the > > distribution in order to kickstart? If I wanted to create one in > > each of my cloned repos for the distros that were missing from the > > vendor feeds, how would I do that? > > > > Also, what is the yum repo metadata file? > > > > Thanks for any assistance in understanding. > > > > Christina > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pulp-list mailing list > > <a href="mailto:Pulp-list@redhat.com">Pulp-list@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Pulp-list@redhat.com">Pulp-list@redhat.com</a>> > > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list</a> > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pulp-list mailing list > > <a href="mailto:Pulp-list@redhat.com">Pulp-list@redhat.com</a> > > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list</a> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pulp-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:Pulp-list@redhat.com">Pulp-list@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list</a> _______________________________________________ Pulp-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Pulp-list@redhat.com">Pulp-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>