[Pulp-list] Pulp fails to sync rhel 7 server repo with repomd.xml not found error, but the optional packages repo syncs okay

[Donald Wolfe]

I am having an issue with Pulp syncing the rhel 7 server repository, but a similarly setup optional packages repository sync works.  Does anyone have any suggestions about what to do, or where to look?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

They were created like this and I got the information out of the /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo file on one of our rhel 7 systems, and the cert files were copied from it as well:

certnum=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=rhel-7-server-rpms \
                --feed=https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7server/x86_64/os \
                --feed-ca-cert=/etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem \
                --feed-cert=/etc/pki/entitlement/${certnum}.pem \
                --feed-key=/etc/pki/entitlement/${certnum}-key.pem \
                --gpg-key=/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release \
                --relative-url=rhel-7-server-rpms \
                --serve-http=True

        pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms \
                --feed=https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/optional/os \
                --feed-ca-cert=/etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem \
                --feed-cert=/etc/pki/entitlement/${certnum}.pem \
                --feed-key=/etc/pki/entitlement/${certnum}-key.pem \
                --gpg-key=/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release \
                --relative-url=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms \
                --serve-http=True

When I sync the rhel 7 server repo, I see this:
pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=rhel-7-server-rpms
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
             Synchronizing Repository [rhel-7-server-rpms]
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
This command may be exited via ctrl+c without affecting the request.
Downloading metadata...
[\]
... completed
Downloading repository content...
[-]
[==================================================] 100%
RPMs:       0/0 items
Delta RPMs: 0/0 items
... completed
Downloading distribution files...
[==================================================] 100%
Distributions: 0/0 items
Task Failed
Error retrieving metadata: Not Found

When I check the messages file, I see this:
Nov 17 15:44:26 sacpulp pulp: nectar.downloaders.threaded:INFO: Download failed: Download of https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7server/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml failed with code 404: Not Found

When I do the successful sync of the optional packages repo, I see this instead:
Nov 17 16:05:48 sacpulp pulp: nectar.downloaders.threaded:INFO: Download succeeded: https://cdn.redhat.com/content/d    ist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/optional/os/repodata/repomd.xml.

Thank you, and best regards,

Don Wolfe
Sr. Unix Administrator
Central Garden and Pet
1340 Treat Blvd. Suite 600
Walnut Creek, CA 94597
Email:  dwolfe at central.com
Office:  (925) 948-2829
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