RPM Support

Please, implement/merge it during sprint 33 so it will go into 2.16.0 release (aka by mid-March)

Findings¶

I conducted manual testing of Modularity contnet.
My set up was as follows:

• Fedora26 hosting a development deployment of Pulp 2.15.1 & Pulp_rpm 2.15
• Fedora28 consumer node, SSL validation switched off
• a Fedora27 modularity repository (by accident)
  Both the systems were running inside Docker.

Syncing¶

Pulp is able to sync modularity content, triggering manually.
I was able to create a rpm repository, feeding on the Fedora27 modularity repository manually.

Copying¶

I was able to copy a repository containing modularity content to a custom repository.
The modularity metadata gets copied automatically, in case of no filter applied (the all directive).
The modularity metadata gets copied in case of filtering, if the filter specified includes the yum_repo_metadata_file (REST API case) or the metafile in case of the Pulp admin CLI.

Consuming¶

I was able to successfully install a nodejs:6 module from the custom copied repository, on the Fedora28 client, following the dnf usecase instructions

On demand Sync¶

The on-demand sync worked; the modularity metadata is downloaded immediately, as expected, and gets published OK.
I was able to install content from a module of an on_demand repo too.

Notes¶

The upstream has decided to remove the F27 modularity tree so our testing data is gone. I've exported the repo I got for testing purposes, but it's a bit big (2.1G). I can share though.
They've got a rel-eng ticket tracking the modularity content handling progress.
The tool to create modularity content repos seems to be Pungi so we might still be able to create our own testing content later for Fixtures.

Due to the fact the modularity metadata isn't processed by Pulp yet (just copied) a consumer can observe discrepancies between modules available and content missing; this happened having copied just the metadata without any actual content:

sh-4.3# dnf module list --repo pulp2.dev_pulp_repos_mod_broken
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:26 ago on Fri Feb 23 15:52:11 2018.
created by dnf config-manager from https://pulp2.dev/pulp/repos/mod_broken
Name                                                          Stream                                            Version                                                   Profiles
fonts                                                         f27                                               20171027091706                                            default, everything
freeipa                                                       master                                            20171030164651                                            default
installer                                                     f27                                               20171030201659                                            default
nodejs                                                        6                                                 20171107132706                                            default, development, ...
perl                                                          5.26                                              20171027072720                                            default, minimal
platform                                                      f27                                               20171028113024                                            buildroot, srpm-buildroot
python2-ecosystem                                             master                                            20171030225722

Hint: [d]efault, [e]nabled, [i]nstalled, [l]ocked
sh-4.3# dnf module enable --repo pulp2.dev_pulp_repos_mod_broken nodejs:6
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:08 ago on Fri Feb 23 15:52:11 2018.
'nodejs:6' is enabled
sh-4.3# dnf --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=pulp2.dev_pulp_repos_mod_broken install nodejs
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:47 ago on Fri Feb 23 15:52:11 2018.
No match for argument: nodejs
Error: Unable to find a match
sh-4.3#

Applied in changeset a00515d2a2e2dafa4c807c4709942f382f4034b5.