[Pulp-list] Issue while syncing EPEL-7 repo from fedoraproject.

[Tatiana Tereshchenko]

Hi Ashish,

Since you asked me to share my thoughts as well,
+1 to what Brian said.

It was documented as a part of this issue https://pulp.plan.io/issues/3411.

Tanya

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 6:20 PM, Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com> wrote:

> pulp_rpm does not currently support metalink so it's not capable of
> syncing from a metalink source. When you try to do that (the feed that
> isn't working) it treats it like a normal rpm remote repo and looks for the
> primary.xml file which it can't find and then bails.
>
> pulp_rpm does support mirrorlist and is capable of following the mirror
> info from a URL (the second url, the one that works) to a specific mirror
> to find the primary.xml it needs. So that is why the second feed url works.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Ashish Humbe <ahumbe at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When we try to create and sync the mirrorlist URL on Sat6.3
>> with pulp-server-2.13.4.6-1 it fails
>>
>> # pulp-admin -u admin -p XXX  rpm repo create --repo-id mirror4 --feed "
>> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=x86_64"
>>
>> # pulp-admin -u admin -p XXX rpm repo sync run --repo-id mirror4
>> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>                    Synchronizing Repository [mirror4]
>> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> This command may be exited via ctrl+c without affecting the request.
>> Downloading metadata...
>> [\]
>> Task Failed
>> Malformed repository: "primary" metadata is not found in repomd.xml
>>
>>
>> If I create a repo with "http://mirrors.fedorapro
>> ject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-24&arch=x86_64" feed URL then it works
>> properly.
>>
>> Is this issue due to any problem with the fedoraproject epel-7 repo or a
>> pulp side issue (since with this URL yum works properly)?
>>
>> Any pointers?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ashish
>>
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