Yum Plugins¶

Yum Types¶

The following are the supported unit types for the Yum plugins. Each unit has a unit type and metadata component. Unit type is a unique combination of fields, and metadata constitutes the rest of the information associated to the unit. The order of the unit fields is significant (and they are listed in order), as they together represent the unit key.

RPM¶

The RPM’s ID is rpm.

Unit Key¶

name: Name of the rpm package
version: Version number of the rpm package
release: Release of the rpm package
epoch: Epoch of the rpm package
arch: Arch of the rpm package
checksumtype: Checksum type used to generate the rpm checksum value
checksum: Checksum of the rpm package. This is the checksum of the package itself and not the rpm header checksum

Metadata¶

filename: Filename of the rpm package
vendor: The organization responsible for building this rpm package
description: A more verbose description of the rpm package
buildhost: The hostname of the build machine on which this package is built
license: The license information of the vendor
requires: Used to include required package dependencies for this rpm package
provides: Used to include rpm provides information
repodata: metadata xml snippets for rpm package. This includes primary, filelists and other xmls. Example format: {"primary" : <primary_xml>, "filelist" : <filelist_xml>, "other" : <other_xml> }

SRPM¶

The SRPM’s ID is srpm.

Unit Key¶

name: Name of the srpm package
version: Version number of the srpm package
release: Release of the srpm package
epoch: Epoch of the srpm package
arch: Arch of the srpm package
checksumtype: Checksum type used to generate the srpm checksum value
checksum: Checksum of the srpm package. This is not the srpm header checksum

Metadata¶

filename: Filename of the srpm package
vendor: The organization responsible for building this srpm package
description: A more verbose description of the srpm package
buildhost: The hostname of the build machine on which this package is built
license: The license information of the vendor
requires: Used to include the required package dependencies for this srpm package
provides: Used to include srpm provides information
repodata: metadata xml snippets for srpm package. This includes primary, filelists and other xmls. Example format: {"primary" : <primary_xml>, "filelist" : <filelist_xml>, "other" : <other_xml> }

DRPM¶

The DRPM’s ID is drpm.

Unit Key¶

epoch: Epoch of the rpm package
version: Version of the rpm package
release: Release of the rpm package
filename: filename of the drpm package
checksum: checksum of the drpm package
checksumtype: checksum type of the drpm package

Metadata¶

size: Size of the drpm
sequence: delta rpm sequence
new_package: new rpm package associated with the drpm package

Errata¶

The Erratum’s ID is erratum.

Unit Key¶

id: Erratum ID string

Metadata¶

title: Title of the erratum
description: A more detailed description of the erratum
version: Version of the erratum
release: Release of the erratum
type: Type of erratum. Valid values include “security”, “bugfix” and “enhancement” erratum
status: Status of the erratum. Example status: “final”
updated: Updated date of the erratum. Expected format “YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS”
issued: Issued date of the erratum. Expected format “YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS”
severity: severity of the erratum. Valid values include “Low”, “Moderate”, “High”
references: Reference information associated with this erratum
pkglist: Includes package information associated with this erratum
rights: Copyrights information associated for the erratum
summary: Detailed summary information for this erratum
solution: Detailed Solution information for this erratum
from: Typically an email address of the erratum issuer
pushcount: Number of times the erratum has been pushed
reboot_suggested: Flag indicating if this erratum is installed it will require a reboot of the system

Distribution¶

The distribution type’s ID is distribution. A distribution tree is described in a treeinfo or .treeinfo file. This INI-style file is described in the productmd project’s documentation. A distribution tree can be created with the lorax tool and is used by the anaconda installer to kickstart installations. A distribution is contained within a yum repository.

There are cases where a repository contains files that are not referenced by the repository’s metadata files or by the treeinfo file. In these cases, there may be a PULP_DISTRIBUTION.xml file present used to enumerate such files. This XML file was introduced in the 2.5 release of the pulp_rpm plugin. The initial schema fails to include elements necessary for file validation.

Unit Key¶

id: ID of the distribution to be inventoried
family: Family of the distribution tree. For example: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
variant: Variant of the distribution tree. For example: Workstation
version: Version of the distribution tree. For example: 6Server
arch: Arch of the distribution tree. For example: x86_64

Metadata¶

files: Files associated with the distribution tree.
timestamp: The timestamp value as taken from the treeinfo file.

Package Group¶

The Package Group’s ID is package_group.

Unit Key¶

id: Package group ID
repo_id: Repository ID the package group ID is associated

Metadata¶

name: Name of the package group
description: Description of the package group
default: Include this package group by default. Valid values are True and False
user_visible: If the packagegroup should be visible when queried. Valid values are True and False
langonly: Language support groups are selected based on this option
display_order: Display order of the package group
mandatory_package_names: Mandatory package names to include in the package group
conditional_package_names: Conditional package names to include in the package group
optional_package_names: Optional package names to include in the package group
default_package_names: Default package names to include in the package group

Package Group Category¶

The Package Group Category’s ID is package_category.

Unit Key¶

id: Package group category ID
repo_id: Repository ID to which the package group category ID is associated

Metadata¶

name: Name of the package group category
description: Description of the package group category
display_order: Display order of the package group category
packagegroupids: Package group IDs associated with the package category

Package Group Environment¶

The Package Group Environment’s ID is package_environment.

Unit Key¶

id: Package group Environment ID
repo_id: Repository ID to which the package group category ID is associated

Metadata¶

name: Name of the package group environment
translated_name: Translated names of the package group environment. These are saved as a dictionary of locale codes to translated names. Example format: {"zh_TW" : 'KDE Plasma 工作空間'}
description: Description of the package group environment
translated_description: Translated descriptions of the package group environment. These are saved as a dictionary of locale codes to translated descriptions. Example format: {"ru" : 'KDE Plasma Workspaces - легко настраиваемый графический интерфейс пользователя, который содержит панель, рабочий стол, системные значки и виджеты рабочего стола, а также множество мощных приложений KDE.'}
display_order: Display order of the package group environment
group_ids: List of Package group IDs associated with the package environment Example format: ['<group_id_1>','<group_id_2>']
options: Package group IDs and whether they are default options. The default flag must be set to either True or False. Example format: {"group" : <group_id>, "default" : True}

Note

Package_group, package_category and package environment elements can also be uploaded via comps file. For more info see :ref:` upload_comps_xml_file`.

Yum Repo Metadata File¶

The Yum Repo Metadata File’s ID is yum_repo_metadata_file.

Unit Key¶

repo_id: The repository id that this metadata file belongs to
data_type: The type of the metadata file

Metadata¶

checksum: The checksum of the metadata file
checksum_type: The name of the algorithm used to calculate the checksum

Yum Importer¶

The Yum Importer can be used to sync an RPM repository with an upstream feed. The Yum Importer ID is yum_importer.

Configuration Parameters¶

The following options are available to the yum importer configuration. All configuration values are optional.

feed: URL where the repository’s content will be synchronized from. This can be either an HTTP URL or a location on disk represented as a file URL.
ssl_validation: Indicates if the server’s SSL certificate is verified against the CA certificate uploaded. The certificate should be verified against the CA for each client request. Has no effect for non-SSL feeds. Valid values to this option are True and False; defaults to True.
ssl_ca_cert: CA certificate string used to validate the feed source’s SSL certificate (for feeds exposed over HTTPS). This option is ignored if ssl_verify is false.
ssl_client_cert: Certificate used as the client certificate when synchronizing the repository. This is used to communicate authentication information to the feed source. The value to this option must be the full path to the certificate. The specified file may be the certificate itself or a single file containing both the certificate and private key.
ssl_client_key: Private key to the certificate specified in ssl_client_cert, assuming it is not included in the certificate file itself.
proxy_host: Indicates the URL to use as a proxy server when synchronizing this repository.
proxy_port: Port to connect to on the proxy server.
proxy_username: Username to pass to the proxy server if it requires authentication.
proxy_password: Password to use for proxy server authentication.
basic_auth_username: Username to pass to the feed URL’s server if it requires authentication.
basic_auth_password: Password to use for server authentication.
query_auth_token: An authorization token that will be added to every request made to the feed URL’s server, which may be required to sync from repositories that use this method of authorization (SLES 12, for example). This mechanism only supports syncing RPM and deltarpm content.
max_speed: The maximum download speed in bytes/sec for a task (such as a sync); defaults to None
validate: If True, as the repository is synchronized the checksum of each file will be verified against the metadata’s expectation. Valid values to this option are True and False; defaults to False.
max_downloads: Number of threads used when synchronizing the repository. This count controls the download threads themselves and has no bearing on the number of operations the Pulp server can execute at a given time; defaults to 1.
remove_missing: If true, as the repository is synchronized, old rpms will be removed. Valid values to this option are True and False; defaults to False
retain_old_count: Count indicating how many old rpm versions to retain; by default it will download all versions available.
skip: List of content types to be skipped during the repository synchronization. If unspecified, all types will be synchronized. Valid values are: rpm, drpm, distribution, erratum; default is [].
checksum_type: checksum type to use for metadata generation; defaults to source checksum type of sha256.
num_retries: Number of times to retry before declaring an error during repository synchronization; defaults to 2.
copy_children: Supported only as an override config option to a repository copy command, when this option is False, the copy command will not attempt to locate and copy child packages of errata, groups, or categories. For example, if it is already known that all of a group’s RPMs are available in the destination repository, it can save substantial time to set this to False and thus not have the importer verify the presence of each. default is True.
download_policy: Set the download policy for a repository. By default this is immediate. The other options are on_demand, where content is only downloaded when a client requests it, and background, where the sync does not download content, but after the sync completes a task is dispatched to download all the content in the background. The content is available for client retrieval during this time.

Yum Distributor¶

The Yum Distributor ID is yum_distributor.

Configuration Parameters¶

The following options are available to the Yum Distributor configuration.

Required Configuration Parameters¶

http: Flag indicating if the repository will be served over a non-SSL connection. Valid values to this option are True and False.
https: Flag indicating if the repository will be served over an SSL connection. If this is set to true, the https_ca option should also be specified to ensure consumers bound to this repository have the necessary certificate to validate the SSL connection. Valid values to this option are True and False.
relative_url: Relative path at which the repository will be served.

Optional Configuration Parameters¶

protected: Protect the published repository with repo authentication. Valid values to this option are True and False.
auth_cert: Certificate that will be provided to consumers bound to this repository. This certificate should contain entitlement information to grant access to this repository, assuming the repository is protected. The value to this option must be the full path to the certificate file. The file must contain both the certificate itself and its private key.
auth_ca: CA certificate that was used to sign the certificate specified in auth-cert. The server will use this CA to verify that the incoming request’s client certificate is signed by the correct source and is not forged. The value to this option must be the full path to the CA certificate file.
https_ca: CA certificate used to sign the SSL certificate the server is using to host this repository. This certificate will be made available to bound consumers so they can verify the server’s identity. The value to this option must be the full path to the certificate.
gpgkey: GPG key used to sign RPMs in this repository. This key will be made available to consumers to use in verifying content in the repository. The value to this option must be the full path to the GPG key file.
generate_sqlite: Boolean flag to indicate whether or not sqlite files should be generated during a repository publish. If unspecified it will not run due to the extra time needed to perform this operation.
checksum_type: Checksum type to use for metadata generation
skip: List of content types to skip during the repository publish. If unspecified, all types will be published. Valid values are: rpm, drpm, distribution, errata, packagegroup.