<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I've been working on getting IBM's "new" yum repositories synchronized into pulp (ala foreman/katello).<br></div>After much teeth gnashing and keyboard banging we've gotten IBM's yum and rpm packages installed and functioning. <br><br></div>If I mirror IBM's repositories locally and point at them, yum has no issue with them<br><br></div>However if I sync them into pulp and distribute them that way and update the yum client to point to it I get the folllowing:<br><br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"># yum repolist </font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">AIX_Toolbox_noarch/primary | 26 kB <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">00:00:00</span></span> </font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Traceback (most recent call last):</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module></font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:]<wbr>, exit_code=True)</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> File "/opt/freeware/share/yum-cli/<wbr>yummain.py", line 288, in user_main</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> errcode = main(args)</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> File "/opt/freeware/share/yum-cli/<wbr>yummain.py", line 140, in main</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> File "/opt/freeware/share/yum-cli/<wbr>cli.py", line 440, in doCommands</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> return self.yum_cli_commands[self.<wbr>basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> File "/opt/freeware/share/yum-cli/<wbr>yumcommands.py", line 864, in doCommand</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> base.repos.populateSack()</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/<wbr>site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 294, in populateSack</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/<wbr>site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 186, in populate</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> dobj = repo_cache_function(xml, csum)</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/<wbr>site-packages/sqlitecachec.py"<wbr>, line 46, in getPrimary</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> self.repoid))</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: Start tag expected, '<' not found</font> <br> <div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I recall from ages ago that this was an issue with the version of libxml on the RHEL client. In this case these are IBM supplied rpms for the ppc architecture so its very difficult to find "newer" versions of them</div><div><br></div><div>Here's some package information as well if its helpful</div><div><br></div><div><font face="sans-serif" size="2"># yum --version</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">3.4.3</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> Installed: yum-3.4.3-5.noarch at 2018-01-18 15:50</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> Built : None at 2017-08-03 07:56</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> Committed: Sangamesh Mallayya <<a href="mailto:sangamesh.swamy@in.ibm.com" target="_blank">sangamesh.swamy@in.ibm.com</a>> at 2017-08-04</font> <br> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">AIX-rpm-7.2.2.0-8.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">bash-4.2-9.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">bzip2-1.0.6-2.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">ca-certificates-2016.10.7-2.<wbr>ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">curl-7.52.1-1.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">db-4.8.24-4.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">gdbm-1.8.3-5.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">gettext-0.17-8.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">glib2-2.14.6-2.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">info-5.0-2.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">pysqlite-1.1.7-2.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">python-2.7.10-1.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">python-devel-2.7.10-1.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">python-iniparse-0.4-1.noarch</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">python-pycurl-7.19.3-1.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">python-tools-2.7.10-1.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">python-urlgrabber-3.10.1-1.<wbr>noarch</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">readline-6.2-3.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">sqlite-3.15.2-1.ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">yum-3.4.3-5.noarch</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-2.<wbr>ppc</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">zlib-1.2.5-6.ppc</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And here are the formats of the repodata directories respectively</div><div><br></div><div>pulp version:</div><div><font face="sans-serif" size="2"># ll ppc/repodata/</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">total 1008</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 505877 Jan 17 11:59 04eb6a8e3b8fef27219496b6c01ef7<wbr>5a9135854699b7c45c8e13a2ea4ef8<wbr>0c16-filelists.xml.gz</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 153180 Jan 17 11:59 3b892d0959cac716766bdc1d7c7574<wbr>7f4d1c7f1364d54468fd3b6ac2a2ba<wbr>9b6c-primary.xml.gz</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 124 Jan 17 11:59 a27718cc28ec6d71432e0ef3e6da54<wbr>4b7f9d93f6bb7d0a55aacd592d0314<wbr>4b70-comps.xml</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 92 Jan 17 11:59 e48fdda4b1587f90b7f04d1e6326d2<wbr>60d7fa587a520bcd6fa74e94d0177c<wbr>bb41-updateinfo.xml.gz</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 352329 Jan 17 11:59 e7fdb522aaaa3693ad49fbb47eec76<wbr>b0336d1346cd2a4ccf405dff6b7276<wbr>d4bd-other.xml.gz</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2162 Jan 17 11:59 repomd.xml</font> <br> <br> </div><div>IBM repo mirrored locally.<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"># ll /var/www/html/pub/ppc-7.2/<wbr>repodata/</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">total 112</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2064 Jul 27 10:02 0410861cec9162d680a30d85448717<wbr>eae4c5b64342d76c78235126b00159<wbr>b8de-other.xml.gz</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 7167 Jul 27 10:02 155714178fd87c7c14dccd26413a2b<wbr>15486c192faf3c9fec7edcc8f92215<wbr>14c8-filelists.xml.gz</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 7726 Jul 27 10:02 5c607a99d19877b8326f1cabb23b97<wbr>607a7744625af75597ea6c1eb64dba<wbr>d736-filelists.xml.gz</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8113 Jul 27 10:02 6f86da92a38e4bc2a350450755134b<wbr>ef82c3c02ca56558bdd8f11862b959<wbr>51df-primary.sqlite.bz2</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6286 Jul 27 10:02 73de6af5232700a5e5c8f5d26be562<wbr>4de959b3604700b75d1d8555769780<wbr>e45d-other.sqlite.bz2</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2373 Jul 27 10:02 7de71092ff85e00b5298868c9800ab<wbr>382fe9811fbb604b38f29a2ed093db<wbr>c2fe-other.xml.gz</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8221 Jul 27 10:02 91f305f8049c4515e8edb74aeabc8c<wbr>83f208744912013f7b5dc28586aede<wbr>d236-primary.sqlite.bz2</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 10817 Jul 27 10:02 96600a102ad1904fadf3005c8e6ca6<wbr>c418d4ccde92132f48cbb22a68891d<wbr>4d47-filelists.sqlite.bz2</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3832 Jul 27 10:02 9d2f104b8df5e04cb901daf712e21d<wbr>547df7cebc383eca3a4c757afa0370<wbr>8df3-primary.xml.gz</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 11292 Jul 27 10:02 a65f0a6a16c940f5afd48e307a9bae<wbr>00ec0285d52dfb3be5408ef95d88d6<wbr>cf8b-filelists.sqlite.bz2</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 7070 Jul 27 10:02 c167a1149e6e47b75b3d62897e84d2<wbr>95501a51124f2db61feb029c920215<wbr>e2d6-other.sqlite.bz2</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19719 Jul 27 10:02 cbcdd38f63d13f02324609a43b3c09<wbr>8a56b940d0189ab0157474f715eef0<wbr>b968-primary.xml</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2977 Jul 27 10:02 repomd.xml<br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"></font></div><div>I doubt anyone has much time with IBM's yum and even less likely that anyone is using pulp to manage the repos, but thought I would give it a whirl..</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone have any ideas which direction to go here?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Will Darton<br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:"arial black",sans-serif">RHC{A,DS,E,VA,SA} </span><font face="arial black, sans-serif" color="#ff0000">130-047-673</font><br><span style="font-size:small;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif;color:rgb(255,0,0)"><br></span><font style="font-size:small">“<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2px;background-color:rgb(246,246,245)">There is excellence all around you. 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