[Pulp-list] does pulp require a repomd.xml file to sync

[Barnaby Court]

Hi Patrick,

Pulp requires a valid Yum repository for syncing. This means that a repomd.xml and all the associated files must be present for Pulp to sync. For your immediate issue I would recommend either 1) rsyncing the individual RPM files locally and creating a repo using createrepo then pointing Pulp at the output or 2) point Pulp at the yum repositories provided by repoforge instead of the individual package rpms. If you really do require the ability for Pulp to upload from a loose directory of RPMs you could open a feature request at https://pulp.plan.io/projects/pulp_rpm and it will be considered for a future release of Pulp. Regards,

-Barnaby

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Swartz" <Patrick.Swartz at tyson.com>
To: pulp-list at redhat.com
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 11:10:50 AM
Subject: [Pulp-list] does pulp require a repomd.xml file to sync



Hello, 

I’m still learning Pulp and ran across an issue I need help understanding. Example scenario … would like to use Pulp to sync http://pkgs.repoforge.org/nmon/ , but repoforge does not provide a repomd.xml file for the different packages which I’m guessing is why I get this error when trying sync – 



Downloading metadata... 

[-] 

... failed 



Not Found 

Task Failed 

Importer indicated a failed response 



So, the question is, does Pulp require that the external repositories contain a repomd.xml file for the sync to work? And/or is there another way to use Pulp to sync to an external repo that doesn’t contain a repomd.xml file? 



Thank you, 

Patrick Swartz 







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