[Pulp-list] Creating RHEL 5 compatible yum repositories

Mon Dec 16 22:04:46 UTC 2013

Tim,
I'm glad to hear that 2.3 fixes the problem for you.  It was one of the major fix areas for that release.  There were a number of items around it.  The original defect was https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029057

-Barnaby

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Bielawa" <tbielawa at redhat.com>
To: "Barnaby Court" <bcourt at redhat.com>, "Christina Plummer" <cplummer at gmail.com>
Cc: pulp-list at redhat.com
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 4:06:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] Creating RHEL 5 compatible yum repositories

Barnaby,

OH SNAP -- Just set up a test pulp-server-2.3.0 server.

  159  2013-12-16 15:39:21 pulp-admin -u admin -p admin rpm repo create
  --repo-id shatest --serve-http true --serve-https true --relative-url
  /dev/shatest --checksum-type sha --display-name shatest

  161  2013-12-16 15:40:26 pulp-admin -u admin -p admin rpm repo uploads
  rpm --repo-id shatest -f ./jsonstats-1.0.1-1.el5.noarch.rpm 

  162  2013-12-16 15:40:46 pulp-admin -u admin -p admin rpm repo publish
  run --repo-id shatest

# root@ # curl -s
  http://foo.bar.bro.hi/pulp/repos/dev/shatest/repodata/repomd.xml |
  grep '<checksum type'
  <checksum
  type="sha">5af5f0e48614686ceddee7d183c6fd30c8d75032</checksum>
  <checksum
  type="sha">652945b5b78aaf00a425ac38e1277b0049afc0ba</checksum>

totally worked! Thanks so much.

side note, are you referring to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953248 ?

Barnaby Court <bcourt at redhat.com> writes:

> This was a known bug with 2.1.3 and has been fixed in version 2.3.  
>
> -Barnaby
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christina Plummer" <cplummer at gmail.com>
> To: "Barnaby Court" <bcourt at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Tim Bielawa" <tbielawa at redhat.com>, pulp-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 1:43:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] Creating RHEL 5 compatible yum repositories
>
> Hi,
>
> Just as a follow-up to my last note: as of 2.1.3, setting the checksum-type
> to sha or sha1 was not sufficient.  You will still end up with groupinfo
> and updateinfo metadata files created with sha256 checksums unless you
> change the Python for modifyrepo.
>
> /usr/share/createrepo/modifyrepo.py
>
> Christina
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Barnaby Court <bcourt at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, When you create a repo you can manually specify the checksum using the
>> --checksum-type flag.  For sha I would recommend using "sha1" as the value
>> in order to be as clear as possible as to which checksum type you mean.
>>  Regards,
>>
>> Barnabhy
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tim Bielawa" <tbielawa at redhat.com>
>> To: "Josh Baird" <jbaird at follett.com>, pulp-list at redhat.com
>> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 1:26:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] Creating RHEL 5 compatible yum repositories
>>
>> Thanks for the lightning-fast response!
>>
>> How about the specific use case of creating a net-new repository of
>> 'SHA' type? Syncing repositories is working well for us
>>
>> It's creating new ones which are giving us issues.
>>
>>
>> "Baird, Josh" <jbaird at follett.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > This was fixed in 2.3.0 [1].  We are successfully syncing RHEL5
>> repositories with 2.3+.
>> >
>> > [1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029057
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Josh
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: pulp-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:pulp-list-bounces at redhat.com]
>> On Behalf Of Tim Bielawa
>> > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 1:18 PM
>> > To: pulp-list at redhat.com
>> > Subject: [Pulp-list] Creating RHEL 5 compatible yum repositories
>> >
>> > Prelude: This is in response to BZ1042208 [0], "rpm metadata ignores
>> --checksum-type from repository"
>> >
>> > Has anyone else experienced issues/victories using pulp 2.1+ to create
>> YUM repositories which are compatible with RHEL 5?
>> >
>> > Specifically, I am referring to pulp setting/not setting the checksum
>> type of a newly created repository correctly?
>> >
>> > I have a large number of RHEL 5 boxen to maintain and when we migrated
>> to Pulp 2.1 from 1.x we began seeing an issue where:
>> >
>> >> pulp-admin ... rpm repo create --checksum-type sha ...
>> >
>> > does not honor the '--checksum-type' option [1], and instead creates all
>> new repositories of type SHA256. This causes a backwards compatibility
>> issue with our RHEL 5 boxes who only support the SHA checksum type.
>> >
>> > I am aware of the python-hashlib package, and have verified that
>> installing it successfully allows RHEL 5 boxen to consume repositories of
>> the SHA256 checksum type. However, IMHO this is a non-obvious work around,
>> and not a change I (or other system administrators) can potentially make
>> across my entire RHEL 5 infrastructure without a lot of coordination and
>> approvals.
>> >
>> > Thanks for any advice!
>> >
>> >
>> > [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1042208
>> > [1] https://github.com/juicer/juicer/issues/202
>> >
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