[Pulp-list] Questions about "distributions" and "yum repo metadata files"
Dennis Gregorovic
dgregor at redhat.com
Mon Dec 16 19:00:29 UTC 2013
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
cdn.redhat.com.
So, the path that you now want to use is:
https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6.5/x86_64/kickstart/
https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5.10/x86_64/kickstart/
The kickstart repos are there for all variants, arches, and minor
releases of RHEL back to 5.7 and 6.1.
Cheers
-- Dennis
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: pulp-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:pulp-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Arnold Bechtoldt
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 1:26 PM
> To: pulp-list at redhat.com
> 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 https://cdn.redhat.com/.../x86_64/treeinfo 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:
> > https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os
> > https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6Server/x86_64/os
> >
> > 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":
> > https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se
> > rver/repodata/908500781155e417f50c845157ee922d22008961-primary.sqlite.
> > bz2
> > https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se
> > rver/repodata/4ec225f636e39c137f8330c4ac2618f0020e85d6-other.xml.gz
> > https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se
> > rver/repodata/53939e47b5c6e5e960f18fc7c209d60ce37ccc01-other.sqlite.bz
> > 2
> > https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se
> > rver/repodata/d984304da8889ba9e906d8a0455418f4b7edc206-primary.xml.gz
> > https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/Se
> > 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 <bcourt at redhat.com
> > <mailto:bcourt at redhat.com>> 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:
> >
> > http://pulp-rpm-dev-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/yum-plugins.html#d
> > 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" <cplummer at gmail.com
> > <mailto:cplummer at gmail.com>>
> > To: pulp-list at redhat.com <mailto:pulp-list at redhat.com>
> > 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:
> > http://www.pulpproject.org/ug/UGDistributions.html
> > https://fedorahosted.org/pulp/wiki/UGRepo
> >
> > 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
> >
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