Pulp

Before I installed Pulp I created a symlink from /var/lib/pulp to /pulp_data/(BIG SPACE). The installation of Pulp went perfect with the documentation procedure and created the following folders under the partition.

1. published
2. static
3. uploads

I also tried to use a dummy command to test it out and it worked: pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=foo

I am trying to create a CDN repository with the appropriate certificate information but it seems to crash with permissions.

pulp-admin -v rpm repo create --feed=https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6.8/x86_64/os --repo-id=base --feed-cert=/etc/pki/entitlement/<cert>.pem --feed-key=/etc/pki/entitlement/<key>.pem --feed-ca-cert=<rhn-ca>.pem
2016-07-05 13:10:58,228 - ERROR - Exception occurred:
        href:      /pulp/api/v2/repositories/
        method:    POST
        status:    500
        error:     [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/pulp/importers/base-yum_importer'
        traceback: [u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 112, in get_response\n    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py", line 69, in view\n    return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py", line 87, in dispatch\n    return handler(request, *args, **kwargs)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/webservices/views/decorators.py", line 241, in _auth_decorator\n    return _verify_auth(self, operation, super_user_only, method, *args, **kwargs)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/webservices/views/decorators.py", line 195, in _verify_auth\n    value = method(self, *args, **kwargs)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/webservices/views/util.py", line 130, in wrapper\n    return func(*args, **kwargs)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/webservices/views/repositories.py", line 128, in post\n    distributor_list=repo_data.get(\'distributors\')\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/controllers/repository.py", line 410, in create_repo\n    importer_controller.set_importer(repo_id, importer_type_id, importer_repo_plugin_config)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/celery/local.py", line 167, in <lambda>\n    __call__ = lambda x, *a, **kw: x._get_current_object()(*a, **kw)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/async/tasks.py", line 473, in __call__\n    return super(Task, self).__call__(*args, **kwargs)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/async/tasks.py", line 103, in __call__\n    return super(PulpTask, self).__call__(*args, **kwargs)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/celery/app/task.py", line 420, in __call__\n    return self.run(*args, **kwargs)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/controllers/importer.py", line 96, in set_importer\n    importer.save()\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/db/model/__init__.py", line 283, in save\n    self._write_pem_file(key, path)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/db/model/__init__.py", line 344, in _write_pem_file\n    misc.mkdir(os.path.dirname(self._pki_path))\n', u'  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/plugins/util/misc.py", line 48, in mkdir\n    os.makedirs(path)\n', u'  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs\n    mkdir(name, mode)\n']
        data:      {}

An internal error occurred on the Pulp server:

RequestException: POST request
on /pulp/api/v2/repositories/ failed with 500 - [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/var/lib/pulp/importers/base-yum_importer'

I checked that the permissions of the symlink are assigned to the apache user as well as the subfolders. My guess is that pulp is unable to create the importers directory.

I also think that the documentation regarding Storage Requirements should be expanded a little bit more with a couple of more scenarios.