Recipes

Mirror a Remote Repository

This is an example of creating a local mirror of a remote repository. In this case, we will mirror the Foreman repository.

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=foreman --feed=http://yum.theforeman.org/releases/1.1/el6/x86_64/ --relative-url=foreman
Successfully created repository [foreman]
  • --repo-id is required and must be unique.
  • --relative-url is optional and was used here to make the path to the repository friendlier.
  • --feed is only required if you want to sync content from an external yum repository, which in this case we do.
$ pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=foreman
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                 Synchronizing Repository [foreman]
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

This command may be exited by pressing ctrl+c without affecting the actual
operation on the server.

Downloading metadata...
[/]
... completed

Downloading repository content...
[==================================================] 100%
RPMs:       98/98 items
Delta RPMs: 0/0 items

... completed

Downloading distribution files...
[==================================================] 100%
Distributions: 0/0 items
... completed

Importing errata...
[-]
... completed

Importing package groups/categories...
[-]
... completed

Publishing packages...
[==================================================] 100%
Packages: 98/98 items
... completed

Publishing distributions...
[==================================================] 100%
Distributions: 0/0 items
... completed

Generating metadata
[\]
... completed

Publishing repository over HTTPS
[\]
... completed
The full URL to a published repository is derived from the following information:
  • The server name of the Pulp server. This should be the same hostname used in the CN of the server’s SSL certificate, otherwise SSL verification on the client will likely fail. The configuration of that certificate is handled by Apache, typically in the ssl.conf configuration file.
  • The Apache alias at which Pulp RPM repositories are hosted. This value is set in the pulp_rpm.conf file located in Apache’s conf.d directory. By default, this is set to /pulp/repos.
  • The relative URL of the repository being published. This can be explicitly set when the repository is created in Pulp. If it is not explicitly set, Pulp will derive this value using the relative URL of the repository’s feed. For feedless repositories, the repository ID is used.

Applying these rules to the above example repository, the published repository can be found (adjusting the hostname as necessary) at: https://localhost/pulp/repos/foreman/.

Had the relative URL not been explicitly set in the repository, the hosted URL would be: https://localhost/pulp/repos/releases/1.1/el6/x86_64/.

To keep the repository current, it might be desirable to synchronize it on a regular schedule. The following command sets a schedule of synchronizing once a day.

$ pulp-admin rpm repo sync schedules create -s '2012-12-15T00:00Z/P1D' --repo-id=foreman
Schedule successfully created

Use a Proxy

Using a web proxy is fairly straight-forward. Proxy details are specified when creating the repository, as in this example:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=foo --proxy-host=http://bar.net \
--proxy-port=1234 --proxy-user=me --proxy-pass=letmein \
--feed=http://bar.net/repos/foo/
Successfully created repository [foo]

Warning

The password is stored in clear text and may be presented in clear text by the command line utility. Do not use sensitive credentials for your web proxy.

Alternatively, Pulp can be configured to use a specific proxy for all yum repositories by adding the following settings to /etc/pulp/server/plugins.conf.d/yum_importer.json

{
 "proxy_host" : "<url>",
 "proxy_port" : <port>,
 "proxy_username" : "<username>",
 "proxy_password" : "<password>"
}

Note

This is a JSON file, so care must be taken when editing it.

Sync a Protected Repo

Syncing against a protected repository requires specifying some SSL certificates. The pulp-admin rpm repo create command does a good job of documenting these options, but the below example may help pull it all together.

This example was run on a RHEL6 server with an active subscription.

Note that you will need to adjust the file names for the certificate and key in /etc/pki/ to match your own. Also note that this needs to run as root to have permission to read the certificates and key.

$ sudo pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=rhel-6-server \
--feed=https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6Server/x86_64/os \
--feed-ca-cert=/etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem --feed-cert=/etc/pki/entitlement/8435737662014631983.pem \
--feed-key=/etc/pki/entitlement/8435737662014631983-key.pem
Successfully created repository [rhel6server]

$ pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=rhel6server
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                 Synchronizing Repository [rhel6server]
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

This command may be exited by pressing ctrl+c without affecting the actual
operation on the server.

Downloading metadata...
[/]
... completed

Downloading repository content...
[                                                  ] 1%
RPMs:       91/8769 items
Delta RPMs: 0/0 items

If you would prefer not to use the entitlement certificates from an existing RHEL installation, you can also acquire the entitlement certificate, key, and CA certificate using the Red Hat Customer Portal. To retrieve the entitlement certificate and key, you will need to view your Registered Consumers. On that page, there is a “Systems” tab, and in that tab there is a link to Register a system. Fill out the form with the relevant details for your Pulp Server, and click “Register”. Once you have registered your system, you must now attach a subscription to it with the “Attach a subscription” link on the page for the newly registered system. In the pop up, select the subscriptions that you want to apply to the Pulp Server and click “Attach selected”. You will now see the selected subscriptions in the “Attached Subscriptions” table, and you can use the “Download” link from the “Entitlement Certificate” column to retrieve the certificate and key, bundled into a single file. You can pass that same file as the --feed-cert and --feed-key options when you create the repo.

It is also possible to sync a repo that is protected via basic authentication. The --basicauth-user and --basicauth-pass options are used for this during repo creation or update.

Export Repositories and Repository Groups

If you have a Pulp server that does not have access to the Internet, it is possible to use a second Pulp server, which does have Internet access, to retrieve repositories and repository updates for your disconnected server. The full list of options can be seen by running pulp-admin rpm repo export run --help.

The general workflow is as follows:

  1. Use the connected Pulp server to sync one or more repositories.
  2. Export these repositories to ISOs: pulp-admin rpm repo export run --repo-id=demo-repo
$ pulp-admin rpm repo export run --repo-id=demo-repo
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                      Publishing Repository [demo-repo]
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

This command may be exited by pressing ctrl+c without affecting the actual
operation on the server.

Which, if publishing over HTTP, could be found at http://localhost/pulp/exports/repo/demo-repo/ (adjust hostname and repo-id as necessary.)

  1. Transport the ISOs to the disconnected Pulp server
  2. Mount each ISO and copy its contents to a directory on the disconnected Pulp server
$ cp -r /path/to/mounted/iso1/ /path/to/extracted/content
$ cp -r /path/to/mounted/iso2/ /path/to/extracted/content
  1. On the disconnected Pulp server, create a new repository with the feed pointing at the directory containing the ISO contents: pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=demo-repo --feed=file:///path/to/extracted/content/
  2. Sync the repository using pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=demo-repo

The workflow for exporting repository groups is quite similar. The command is pulp-admin rpm repo group export run. Repository groups can contain any content type, but this command will only export the yum repositories.

It is also possible to export all rpms and errata associated with a repository in a given time frame using the --start-date and --end-date options. This is helpful if you have already exported the repository and would like to only export updates. Be aware that since this does not export package groups or categories, any updates to these will not be reflected on the disconnected Pulp server. There is currently no support in the pulp-admin command-line utility for uploading these incremental updates back into Pulp; you must use the REST API for these uploads.

Warning

It is very important keep track of the last time you performed an incremental export. If you fail use the correct date range, some dependencies may be missing from the export. It is recommended that you overlap the date ranges to be safe.

The default behavior is to create a set of ISO images and publish them over HTTP or HTTPS to /pulp/exports/repo/<repo-id>/, or if publishing a repo group, /pulp/exports/repo_group/<group-id>/. The default image size will fit on a DVD (4308MB). However, if you would prefer to use an external hard drive to transport the repositories, you can use the --export-dir option, which will export the repository to a directory on the Pulp server rather than creating a set of ISOs and publishing them over HTTP or HTTPS. If you choose this option, simply skip step 4.

Errata

Searching for Errata

Pulp has a very powerful search interface that can be used to search content units. In this recipe, you will learn how to use it to search for errata that have been issued on or after a date, and also how to search for errata by type. Let’s start by defining a repo cleverly called repo with a demo feed:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=repo \
  --feed=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/demo_repos/pulp_unittest/ \
  --relative-url=repo
Successfully created repository [repo]

Now let’s sync the repo so it has some errata for us to search:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=repo

The contents of our example repository are from a few years ago, but it includes errata over a span of a few years. Suppose that I wanted to know which errata were issued on or after December 1, 2009. For this example, I will include the --fields=id flag to limit the output to just be the IDs of the errata, but you can season that flag to taste, or omit it if you want to see everything:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content errata --filters='{"issued": {"$gte": "2009-12-01"}}' \
  --repo-id=repo --fields=id
Id: RHBA-2010:0010

Id: RHBA-2010:0205

Id: RHBA-2010:0206

Id: RHBA-2010:0222

Id: RHBA-2010:0251

Id: RHBA-2010:0281

Id: RHBA-2010:0282

Id: RHBA-2010:0294

Id: RHBA-2010:0418

We already talked about the --fields=id flag, so let’s focus on the --filters='{"issued": {"$gte": "2009-12-01"}}' flag. pulp-admin has some built in simple filtering capabilities, but they aren’t as powerful as the filtering we can achieve with the --filters flag. We can use this flag to pass a JSON filter to MongoDB to have it apply any arbitrary filter we want. In our case, we want to look for the “issued” field of our errata being greater than or equal to 2009-12-01.

There are three different types of errata: Security Advisories (RHSAs), Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs), and Product Enhancement Advisories (RHEAs). Suppose we wanted to know which RHSAs were available in a repo. We would run this command:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content errata --match type=security \
  --repo-id=repo --fields=id
Id: RHSA-2007:0114

Id: RHSA-2007:0323

Id: RHSA-2008:0194

Id: RHSA-2008:0892

Id: RHSA-2009:0003

Id: RHSA-2009:0382

Id: RHSA-2009:1472

For this command we asked Pulp to find errata that had their type field set to “security”. We can also find these by applying a regex to the id field:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content errata \
  --match id=^RHSA --repo-id=repo

In this example, we asked MongoDB to look for errata that had an id that matched our supplied Regular Expression. The carat at the start of our regular expression will match the beginning of the id field, and we used RHSA after that to make sure the ID was an RHSA and not an RHBA or RHEA.

Copy Errata From One Repository to Another

The pulp-admin utility can be used to copy errata from one repository to another. In this recipe, we will create two repositories, sync one with a sample upstream repository, and then copy an erratum from it to the other. Let’s begin by creating our two repositories, repo_1 and repo_2:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=repo_1 \
  --feed=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/demo_repos/pulp_unittest/ \
  --relative-url=repo_1
Successfully created repository [repo_1]

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=repo_2 \
  --relative-url=repo_2
Successfully created repository [repo_2]

Next, we will sync repo_1, so that it will have some errata that we can copy:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=repo_1
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Synchronizing Repository [repo_1]
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

This command may be exited by pressing ctrl+c without affecting the actual
operation on the server.

Downloading metadata...
[|]
... completed

Downloading repository content...
[==================================================] 100%
RPMs:       3/3 items
Delta RPMs: 0/0 items
... completed

Downloading distribution files...
[==================================================] 100%
Distributions: 0/0 items
... completed

Importing errata...
[-]
... completed

Importing package groups/categories...
[-]
... completed

Publishing packages...
[==================================================] 100%
Packages: 3/3 items
... completed

Publishing distributions...
[==================================================] 100%
Distributions: 3/3 items
... completed

Generating metadata
[/]
... completed

Publishing repository over HTTPS
[-]
... completed

Publishing repository over HTTP
[-]
... skipped

Now repo_1 has errata and other units, and repo_2 has no units at all. Suppose that we would like to pull all of the security updates from repo_1 to repo_2. We can determine which errata are RHSA by using a match filter:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content errata --match type=security \
  --repo-id=repo_1 --fields=id
Id: RHSA-2007:0114

Id: RHSA-2007:0323

Id: RHSA-2008:0194

Id: RHSA-2008:0892

Id: RHSA-2009:0003

Id: RHSA-2009:0382

Id: RHSA-2009:1472

Running that same command for repo_2 doesn’t show any errata, so let’s use the unit copy command to bring these RHSAs over, but not the RHBAs or the RHEAs:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo copy errata --match type=security \
  --from-repo-id=repo_1 --to-repo-id=repo_2
Progress on this task can be viewed using the commands under "repo tasks".

Note

Use the –recursive flag to copy any dependencies of units being copied from the source repo into the destination repo.

We can inspect the progress of this operation using pulp-admin repo tasks list --repo-id=repo_1. There are only a few errata to be copied here so it should be complete shortly. Now we can inspect the contents of repo_2:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content errata --repo-id=repo_2 --fields=id
Id: RHSA-2007:0114

Id: RHSA-2007:0323

Id: RHSA-2008:0194

Id: RHSA-2008:0892

Id: RHSA-2009:0003

Id: RHSA-2009:0382

Id: RHSA-2009:1472

Create Your Own Errata

You can also create your own errata on a repo using the Pulp client. In order to do this, you will need to create a few CSV files and provide a few data fields to the pulp-admin client.

Let’s begin by making a repo and syncing it:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=repo \
  --feed=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/demo_repos/pulp_unittest/
Successfully created repository [repo]

$ pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=repo

Now let’s create a new errata that references one of the test packages from this repo called pulp-test-package. The first file that we will need to provide is a references CSV file. This CSV should have four columns: href, type, id, and description, giving a link to the referenced bug report or CVE, the type of the reference, the ID of the reference, and a brief description. Here is an example, named references.csv, wherein you can see that pulp-test-package-0.2.1 has some serious issues:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123456,bugzilla,123456,pulp-test-package-0.2.1 prints mean error messages to users
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=654321,bugzilla,654321,pulp-test-package-0.2.1 causes users' machines to run out of bits/bytes/whatever. The users must wait until the next supply comes next week

Next, we will need to provide a list of packages that the errata applies to. This CSV provides a list of packages that address the issue that the errata tracks with the following columns: name, version, release, epoch, arch, filename, checksum, checksum_type, and src. For example, let’s create package_list.csv for this:

pulp-test-package,0.3.1,1.fc11,0,x86_64,pulp-test-package-0.3.1-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm,6bce3f26e1fc0fc52ac996f39c0d0e14fc26fb8077081d5b4dbfb6431b08aa9f,sha256,pulp-test-package-0.3.1-1.fc11.src.rpm

Now that we have these two files, we can create our new errata like so:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo uploads erratum --erratum-id=DEMO_ID_1 \
  --title="1: pulp-test-package bit conservation" \
  --description="1: pulp-test-package now conserves your precious bits." \
  --version=1 --release="el6" --type="bugzilla" --status="final" \
  --updated="`date -u +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z'`" \
  --issued="`date -u +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z'`" \
  --reference-csv=references.csv --pkglist-csv=package_list.csv \
  --from=pulp-list@redhat.com --repo-id=repo
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                              Unit Upload
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Extracting necessary metadata for each request...
... completed

Creating upload requests on the server...
[==================================================] 100%
Initializing upload
... completed

Starting upload of selected units. If this process is stopped through ctrl+c,
the uploads will be paused and may be resumed later using the resume command or
canceled entirely using the cancel command.

Importing into the repository...
... completed

Deleting the upload request...
... completed

And now we are able to see that our errata is part of the repo:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content errata --repo-id=repo --erratum_id=DEMO_ID_1
Description:      1: pulp-test-package now conserves your precious bits.
From Str:         pulp-list@redhat.com
Id:               DEMO_ID_1
Issued:           2012-12-19 12:19:18 UTC
Pkglist:
  Name:     el6
  Packages:
    Arch:     x86_64
    Epoch:    0
    Filename: pulp-test-package-0.3.1-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm
    Name:     pulp-test-package
    Release:  1.fc11
    Src:      pulp-test-package-0.3.1-1.fc11.src.rpm
    Sums:     6bce3f26e1fc0fc52ac996f39c0d0e14fc26fb8077081d5b4dbfb6431b08aa9f
    Type:     sha256
    Version:  0.3.1
  Short:
Pushcount:        1
Reboot Suggested: False
References:
  Href:  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123456
  Id:    123456
  Title: pulp-test-package-0.2.1 prints mean error messages to users
  Type:  bugzilla
  Href:  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=654321
  Id:    654321
  Title: pulp-test-package-0.2.1 causes users' machines to run out of
         bits/bytes/whatever. The users must wait until the next supply comes
         next week
  Type:  bugzilla
Release:          el6
Rights:           None
Severity:         None
Solution:         None
Status:           final
Summary:          None
Title:            1: pulp-test-package bit conservation
Type:             bugzilla
Updated:          2012-12-19 12:19:18 UTC
Version:          1

Package Groups

Create Your Own Package Groups

You can easily define your own package groups with the pulp_admin utility. Let’s create and sync a repo:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=repo_1 \
  --feed=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/demo_repos/pulp_unittest/
Successfully created repository [repo_1]

$ pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=repo_1

Now let’s build a package group for our demo repo test files:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo uploads group --repo-id=repo_1 --group-id=pulp_test \
  --name="Pulp Test" --description="A package group of Pulp test files." \
  --mand-name=pulp-dot-2.0-test --mand-name=pulp-test-package
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                              Unit Upload
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Extracting necessary metadata for each request...
... completed

Creating upload requests on the server...
[==================================================] 100%
Initializing upload
... completed

Starting upload of selected units. If this process is stopped through ctrl+c,
the uploads will be paused and may be resumed later using the resume command or
canceled entirely using the cancel command.

Importing into the repository...
... completed

Deleting the upload request...
... completed

We can see that the package group is now part of our repo:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content group --repo-id=repo_1 --match id=pulp_test
Conditional Package Names:
Default:                   False
Default Package Names:     None
Description:               A package group of Pulp test files.
Display Order:             0
Id:                        pulp_test
Langonly:                  None
Mandatory Package Names:   pulp-dot-2.0-test, pulp-test-package
Name:                      Pulp Test
Optional Package Names:    None
Repo Id:                   repo_1
Translated Description:
Translated Name:
User Visible:              False

Note

Package groups will also be created and associated with a repository if they are specified in a comps file and you Upload a comps.xml file.

Copying Package Groups Between Repos

Package groups can be copied from one repository to another, which will bring along the packages it references as well. For this example, we will assume you’ve performed the steps from the Create Your Own Package Groups section.

We’ll begin by creating a new empty repo, repo_2:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=repo_2
Successfully created repository [repo_2]

And now we will copy our package group, pulp_test from repo_1 to repo_2:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo copy group --match id=pulp_test --from-repo-id=repo_1 \
  --to-repo-id=repo_2
Progress on this task can be viewed using the commands under "repo tasks".

Note

Use the –recursive flag to copy any dependencies of units being copied from the source repo into the destination repo.

This task should complete fairly quickly since there isn’t much to do with our tiny example repo, but we can check on the progress to verify that it is finished:

$ pulp-admin repo tasks list --repo-id=repo_1
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                                 Tasks
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Operations:  associate
Resources:   repo_2 (repository), repo_1 (repository)
State:       Successful
Start Time:  2012-12-20T16:26:44Z
Finish Time: 2012-12-20T16:26:44Z
Result:      N/A
Task Id:     9f1d0146-cc28-47a8-b0f4-b1b49f84e058

Now we can inspect repo_2 and see that the package group and its RPMs have been copied there:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content group --repo-id=repo_2
Conditional Package Names:
Default:                   False
Default Package Names:     None
Description:               A package group of Pulp test files.
Display Order:             0
Id:                        pulp_test
Langonly:                  None
Mandatory Package Names:   pulp-dot-2.0-test, pulp-test-package
Name:                      Pulp Test
Optional Package Names:    None
Repo Id:                   repo_1
Translated Description:
Translated Name:
User Visible:              False

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content rpm --repo-id=repo_2
Arch:         x86_64
Buildhost:    gibson
Checksum:     435d92e6c09248b501b8d2ae786f92ccfad69fab8b1bc774e2b66ff6c0d83979
Checksumtype: sha256
Description:  Test package to see how we deal with packages with dots in the
              name
Epoch:        0
Filename:     pulp-dot-2.0-test-0.1.2-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm
License:      MIT
Name:         pulp-dot-2.0-test
Provides:     [[u'pulp-dot-2.0-test(x86-64)', u'EQ', [u'0', u'0.1.2',
              u'1.fc11']], [u'pulp-dot-2.0-test', u'EQ', [u'0', u'0.1.2',
              u'1.fc11']], [u'config(pulp-dot-2.0-test)', u'EQ', [u'0',
              u'0.1.2', u'1.fc11']]]
Release:      1.fc11
Requires:
Vendor:
Version:      0.1.2

Arch:         x86_64
Buildhost:    gibson
Checksum:     6bce3f26e1fc0fc52ac996f39c0d0e14fc26fb8077081d5b4dbfb6431b08aa9f
Checksumtype: sha256
Description:  Test package.  Nothing to see here.
Epoch:        0
Filename:     pulp-test-package-0.3.1-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm
License:      MIT
Name:         pulp-test-package
Provides:     [[u'pulp-test-package(x86-64)', u'EQ', [u'0', u'0.3.1',
              u'1.fc11']], [u'pulp-test-package', u'EQ', [u'0', u'0.3.1',
              u'1.fc11']], [u'config(pulp-test-package)', u'EQ', [u'0',
              u'0.3.1', u'1.fc11']]]
Release:      1.fc11
Requires:
Vendor:
Version:      0.3.1

Package Categories

Create Your Own Package Categories

You can also define your own package categories with the pulp_admin utility. Let’s create and sync a repo:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=repo_1 \
  --feed=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/demo_repos/pulp_unittest/
Successfully created repository [repo_1]

$ pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=repo_1

Now let’s build two package groups for our demo repo test files:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo uploads group --repo-id=repo_1 \
  --group-id=pulp_test_packages --name="Pulp Test Packages" \
  --description="A package group of Pulp test files." \
  --mand-name=pulp-dot-2.0-test --mand-name=pulp-test-package

$ pulp-admin rpm repo uploads group --repo-id=repo_1 \
  --group-id=pulp_dotted_name_packages --name="Pulp Dotted Name Packages" \
  --description="A group of packages that have dots in their names." \
  --mand-name=pulp-dot-2.0-test

And now we can easily create a package category that is a collection of these two groups:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo uploads category --repo-id=repo_1 \
  --category-id=example_category --name="Example Category" \
  --description="An Example Category" --group=pulp_test_packages \
  --group=pulp_dotted_name_packages
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                              Unit Upload
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Extracting necessary metadata for each request...
... completed

Creating upload requests on the server...
[==================================================] 100%
Initializing upload
... completed

Starting upload of selected units. If this process is stopped through ctrl+c,
the uploads will be paused and may be resumed later using the resume command or
canceled entirely using the cancel command.

Importing into the repository...
... completed

Deleting the upload request...
... completed

The package category details can be listed as well:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content category --repo-id=repo_1 \
  --match id=example_category
Description:            An Example Category
Display Order:          0
Id:                     example_category
Name:                   Example Category
Packagegroupids:        pulp_test_packages, pulp_dotted_name_packages
Repo Id:                repo_1
Translated Description:
Translated Name:

Note

Package categories will also be created and associated with a repository if they are specified in a comps file and you Upload a comps.xml file.

Copying Package Categories

Like package groups, categories can be copied between repos, which will bring along their groups and packages. Assuming you’ve performed the steps from the Create Your Own Package Categories section, let’s begin by creating an empty second repo:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=repo_2
Successfully created repository [repo_2]

Now let’s copy example_category from repo_1 to repo_2:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo copy category --match id=example_category \
  --from-repo-id=repo_1 --to-repo-id=repo_2
Progress on this task can be viewed using the commands under "repo tasks".

Note

Use the –recursive flag to copy any dependencies of units being copied from the source repo into the destination repo.

We should check out the task to see when it’s done with the repo tasks command:

$ pulp-admin repo tasks list --repo-id=repo_1
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                                 Tasks
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Operations:  associate
Resources:   repo_2 (repository), repo_1 (repository)
State:       Successful
Start Time:  2012-12-20T20:41:12Z
Finish Time: 2012-12-20T20:41:12Z
Result:      N/A
Task Id:     b5139389-b985-40be-8ee5-10bc626a124a

And now we can see that repo_2 has the category, groups, and RPMs:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content category --repo-id=repo_2
Description:            An Example Category
Display Order:          0
Id:                     example_category
Name:                   Example Category
Packagegroupids:        pulp_test_packages, pulp_dotted_name_packages
Repo Id:                repo_1
Translated Description:
Translated Name:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content group --repo-id=repo_2
Conditional Package Names:
Default:                   False
Default Package Names:     None
Description:               A group of packages that have dots in their names.
Display Order:             0
Id:                        pulp_dotted_name_packages
Langonly:                  None
Mandatory Package Names:   pulp-dot-2.0-test
Name:                      Pulp Dotted Name Packages
Optional Package Names:    None
Repo Id:                   repo_1
Translated Description:
Translated Name:
User Visible:              False

Conditional Package Names:
Default:                   False
Default Package Names:     None
Description:               A package group of Pulp test files.
Display Order:             0
Id:                        pulp_test_packages
Langonly:                  None
Mandatory Package Names:   pulp-dot-2.0-test, pulp-test-package
Name:                      Pulp Test Packages
Optional Package Names:    None
Repo Id:                   repo_1
Translated Description:
Translated Name:
User Visible:              False

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content rpm --repo-id=repo_2
Arch:         x86_64
Buildhost:    gibson
Checksum:     435d92e6c09248b501b8d2ae786f92ccfad69fab8b1bc774e2b66ff6c0d83979
Checksumtype: sha256
Description:  Test package to see how we deal with packages with dots in the
              name
Epoch:        0
Filename:     pulp-dot-2.0-test-0.1.2-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm
License:      MIT
Name:         pulp-dot-2.0-test
Provides:     [[u'pulp-dot-2.0-test(x86-64)', u'EQ', [u'0', u'0.1.2',
              u'1.fc11']], [u'pulp-dot-2.0-test', u'EQ', [u'0', u'0.1.2',
              u'1.fc11']], [u'config(pulp-dot-2.0-test)', u'EQ', [u'0',
              u'0.1.2', u'1.fc11']]]
Release:      1.fc11
Requires:
Vendor:
Version:      0.1.2

Arch:         x86_64
Buildhost:    gibson
Checksum:     6bce3f26e1fc0fc52ac996f39c0d0e14fc26fb8077081d5b4dbfb6431b08aa9f
Checksumtype: sha256
Description:  Test package.  Nothing to see here.
Epoch:        0
Filename:     pulp-test-package-0.3.1-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm
License:      MIT
Name:         pulp-test-package
Provides:     [[u'pulp-test-package(x86-64)', u'EQ', [u'0', u'0.3.1',
              u'1.fc11']], [u'pulp-test-package', u'EQ', [u'0', u'0.3.1',
              u'1.fc11']], [u'config(pulp-test-package)', u'EQ', [u'0',
              u'0.3.1', u'1.fc11']]]
Release:      1.fc11
Requires:
Vendor:
Version:      0.3.1

Package Environments

Create Your Own Package Environment

You can also define your own package environments with the pulp_admin utility. Let’s create and sync a repo:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=repo_1 \
  --feed=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/demo_repos/pulp_unittest/
Successfully created repository [repo_1]

$ pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=repo_1

Now let’s build two package groups for our demo repo test files:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo uploads group --repo-id=repo_1 \
  --group-id=pulp_test_packages --name="Pulp Test Packages" \
  --description="A package group of Pulp test files." \
  --mand-name=pulp-dot-2.0-test --mand-name=pulp-test-package

$ pulp-admin rpm repo uploads group --repo-id=repo_1 \
  --group-id=pulp_dotted_name_packages --name="Pulp Dotted Name Packages" \
  --description="A group of packages that have dots in their names." \
  --mand-name=pulp-dot-2.0-test

And now we can create a package environment that is a collection of these two groups:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo uploads environment --repo-id repo_1 --environment-id test-env \
--name test-env --description test-env --group pulp_dotted_name_packages \
--group pulp_test_packages

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                              Unit Upload
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Extracting necessary metadata for each request...
... completed

Creating upload requests on the server...
[==================================================] 100%
Initializing upload
... completed

Starting upload of selected units. If this process is stopped through ctrl+c,
the uploads will be paused and may be resumed later using the resume command or
canceled entirely using the cancel command.

Importing into the repository...
This command may be exited via ctrl+c without affecting the request.


[\]
Running...

Task Succeeded


Deleting the upload request...
... completed

The package environment details can be listed as well:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content environment --repo-id repo_1 --match id=test-env

Description: test-env
Group Ids:   pulp_dotted_name_packages, pulp_test_packages
Id:          test-env
Name:        test-env
Options:

Note

Package environments will also be created and associated with a repository if they are specified in a comps file and you Upload a comps.xml file.

Copying Package Environments

Like package groups, environments can be copied between repos, which will bring along their groups. Assuming you’ve performed the steps from the Create Your Own Package Environment section, let’s begin by creating an empty second repo:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=repo_2
Successfully created repository [repo_2]

Now let’s copy test-env from repo_1 to repo_2:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo copy environment --match id=test-env \
  --from-repo-id=repo_1 --to-repo-id=repo_2
Progress on this task can be viewed using the commands under "repo tasks".

Note

Use the –recursive flag to copy any dependencies of units being copied from the source repo into the destination repo.

Observe that repo_2 contains newly copied package environment:

$ pulp-admin repo list --repo-id repo_2

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                              Repositories
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Id:                   repo_2
Display Name:         None
Description:          None
Content Unit Counts:
  Package Environment: 1

Package Langpacks

Creating Package Langpacks

You can also define your own package langpacks with the pulp_admin utility. Let’s create and sync a repo:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=repo_1

Now let’s build a package langpacks entry for the hyphen package:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo uploads langpacks --name hyphen --install hyphen-%s --repo-id repo_1
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                              Unit Upload
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Extracting necessary metadata for each request...
... completed

Creating upload requests on the server...
[==================================================] 100%
Initializing upload
... completed

Starting upload of selected units. If this process is stopped through ctrl+c,
the uploads will be paused and may be resumed later using the resume command or
canceled entirely using the cancel command.

Importing into the repository...
... completed

Deleting the upload request...
... completed

We can see that the package langpacks is now part of our repo:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content langpacks --repo-id=repo_1
Matches:
  Install: hyphen-%s
  Name:    hyphen

Note

Package langpacks will also be created and associated with a repository if they are specified in a comps file and you Upload a comps.xml file.

Copying Package Langpacks

Like package environments, package langpacks can be copied between repos. Assuming you’ve performed the steps from the Creating Package Langpacks section, let’s begin by creating an empty second repo:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=repo_2
Successfully created repository [repo_2]

Now let’s copy the langpacks from repo_1 to repo_2:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo copy langpacks --from-repo-id=repo_1 --to-repo-id=repo_2

Observe that repo_2 contains newly copied package langpacks:

$ pulp-admin repo list --repo-id repo_2

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                              Repositories
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Id:                   repo_2
Display Name:         None
Description:          None
Content Unit Counts:
  Package Langpacks: 1

Searching Package Langpacks

Package langpacks can be searched for within a specific repo. Assuming you’ve performed the steps from the Copying Package Langpacks section, let’s search for the recently copied langpacks within repo_2:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo content langpacks --repo-id repo_2

Removing Package Langpacks

Package langpacks can be removed from a specific repo. Assuming you’ve performed the steps from the Copying Package Langpacks section, let’s remove the recently copied langpacks within repo_2:

$ pulp-admin rpm repo remove langpacks --repo-id repo_2 --str-eq repo_id=repo_2

Comps

Upload a comps.xml file

This is an example of creating a repo and uploading a comps.xml file into it.

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id comps-repo

Successfully created repository [comps-repo]

$ pulp-admin rpm repo uploads comps --repo-id comps-repo --file ~/sample-comps.xml


+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                              Unit Upload
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Extracting necessary metadata for each request...
[==================================================] 100%
Analyzing: sample-comps.xml
... completed

Creating upload requests on the server...
[==================================================] 100%
Initializing: sample-comps.xml
... completed

Starting upload of selected units. If this process is stopped through ctrl+c,
the uploads will be paused and may be resumed later using the resume command or
canceled entirely using the cancel command.

Uploading: sample-comps.xml
[==================================================] 100%
8407/8407 bytes
... completed

Importing into the repository...
This command may be exited via ctrl+c without affecting the request.


[\]
Running...

Task Succeeded


Deleting the upload request...
... completed

Now let’s list the repo and check its content.

$ pulp-admin rpm repo list --repo-id comps-repo

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                            RPM Repositories
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Id:                   comps-repo
Display Name:         comps-repo
Description:          None
Content Unit Counts:
  Package Category:    2
  Package Environment: 1
  Package Group:       3

Chili

  • 2 lb. Ground Beef
  • Chili Powder
  • Garlic
  • 1 Large Onion
  • 2 Cans of Tomatoes
  • 4 Cans of beans (mix & match!)
  • Habanero Peppers (be careful)
  • Jalapeño Peppers
  • 2 Bell Peppers

Put the meat, onion, powder, and tomatoes in a crock pot. Chop up all the vegetables. Put half the vegetables and put those in the crock pot, save the rest for later in the fridge. Turn the crock pot on for several (4-10) hours. After it is done, stir in the remaining vegetables and beans. Cook on high for 30 minutes.