Pulp

Description of problem:

When uploading an rpm file to a pulp repo, it fails with: Invalid unit type for repository

I have two pulp servers: a parent and a child node. This only happens when uploading to repository "foo" on the child node. I think this is because Repository "foo" on the child has "yum_importer" as the Importer type, whereas the parent has "nodes_http_importer".

It is not clear in the documentation what these various importer plugins are or how to update an existing repo to change which importer is used.

The better solution for me is to upload to the parent and sync the repo to the child node, but that takes forever since I have so many repositories, and in 2.3 it seems I cannot specify a single repository (i.e. --repo-id) in the sync. Looks like that feature has been added in 2.4.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pulp 2.3.1
CentOS 6.5

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.

me@child:~> pulp-admin rpm repo uploads rpm --repo-id=foo --file=serf-custom-1.3.5-1.x86_64.rpm

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Unit Upload
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Extracting necessary metadata for each request...
[==================================================] 100%
Analyzing: serf-custom-1.3.5-1.x86_64.rpm
... completed

Creating upload requests on the server...
[==================================================] 100%
Initializing: serf-custom-1.3.5-1.x86_64.rpm
... 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
cancelled entirely using the cancel command.

Uploading: serf-custom-1.3.5-1.x86_64.rpm
[==================================================] 100%
825314/825314 bytes
... completed

Importing into the repository...
The server indicated one or more values were incorrect. The server provided the
following error message:

Invalid unit type for repository

More information can be found in the client log file ~/.pulp/admin.log.

#

1. ~/.pulp/admin.log
   #
   2014-05-13 08:53:08,734 - ERROR - Exception occurred:
   href: /pulp/api/v2/repositories/foo/actions/import_upload/
   method: POST
   status: 400
   error: Invalid unit type for repository
   traceback: None
   data: {u'args': [u'Invalid unit type for repository']}

Actual results:
Invalid unit type for repository

Expected results:
Successful upload of rpm to repository.

Additional info:
Here are the repo details for the parent and child pulp servers per "pulp-admin repo list --details":

1. Parent pulp server
   #
   Id: foo
   Display Name: Custom packages for EL6 - Development
   Description: Custom Packages for EL6 - x86_64
   Content Unit Counts:
   Rpm: 96
   Notes:
   Importers:
   Config:
   Manifest URL: https://pulp.example.com/pulp/nodes/https/repos/foo/
   manifest.json
   Strategy: additive
   Id: nodes_http_importer
   Importer Type Id: nodes_http_importer
   Last Sync: 2014-05-12T23:23:08-04:00
   Repo Id: foo
   Scheduled Syncs:
   Distributors:
   Auto Publish: True
   Config:
   Http: False
   Https: True
   Relative URL: foo
   Distributor Type Id: yum_distributor
   Id: yum_distributor
   Last Publish: 2014-05-13T08:12:14-04:00
   Repo Id: foo
   Scheduled Publishes:
   Auto Publish: False
   Config:
   Http: False
   Https: True
   Distributor Type Id: export_distributor
   Id: export_distributor
   Last Publish: None
   Repo Id: foo
   Scheduled Publishes:

1. Child pulp node
   #
   Id: foo
   Display Name: Custom packages for EL6 - Development
   Description: Custom Packages for EL6 - x86_64
   Content Unit Counts:
   Rpm: 97
   Notes:
   Importers:
   Config:
   Id: yum_importer
   Importer Type Id: yum_importer
   Last Sync: None
   Repo Id: foo
   Scheduled Syncs:
   Distributors:
   Auto Publish: True
   Config:
   Http: False
   Https: True
   Relative URL: foo
   Distributor Type Id: yum_distributor
   Id: yum_distributor
   Last Publish: 2014-05-13T08:11:09-04:00
   Repo Id: foo
   Scheduled Publishes:
   Auto Publish: True
   Config:
   Distributor Type Id: nodes_http_distributor
   Id: nodes_http_distributor
   Last Publish: 2014-05-09T11:37:17-04:00
   Repo Id: foo
   Scheduled Publishes:
   Auto Publish: False
   Config:
   Http: False
   Https: True
   Distributor Type Id: export_distributor
   Id: export_distributor
   Last Publish: None
   Repo Id: foo
   Scheduled Publishes:

+ This bug was cloned from Bugzilla Bug #1097275 +