Pulp

Unpack the attached tar gz file in /tmp
you should see a /tmp/zoo5

try the following commands

pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=synergism --feed=file:///var/www/repositories/zoo5
pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id=synergism

cat /var/log/messages

You see the following the stack trace. Note in particular this error

May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: nectar.downloaders.local:ERROR: (2921-33184) [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'///var/www/repositories/zoo5/PULP_DISTRIBUTION.xml'

This causes katello to think there is a 500 in pulp. Causing integration tests to fail.

May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: celery.worker.strategy:INFO: Received task: pulp.server.async.tasks._queue_reserved_task[c0a60ed2-b5a4-41ef-a888-d8d6a3684b07]
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: celery.worker.strategy:INFO: Received task: pulp.server.managers.repo.sync.sync[cd811a9c-be90-4ff3-aa04-d1b6fd0b35a6]
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: celery.worker.job:INFO: Task pulp.server.async.tasks._queue_reserved_task[c0a60ed2-b5a4-41ef-a888-d8d6a3684b07] succeeded in 0.036162881006s: None
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: celery.worker.strategy:INFO: Received task: pulp.server.async.tasks._release_resource[ac1d87a3-a26a-427d-8fde-119cf670e9dd]
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.sync:INFO: Downloading metadata from file:///var/www/repositories/zoo5/.
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.sync:INFO: Parsing metadata.
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.sync:INFO: Downloading metadata files.
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.sync:INFO: Generating metadata databases.
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.sync:INFO: Determining which units need to be downloaded.
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.sync:INFO: Downloading 0 RPMs.
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.repomd.alternate:INFO: The content container reported: {'downloads': {}, 'total_sources': 0} for base URL: file:///var/www/repositories/zoo5/
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.sync:INFO: Downloading additional units.
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: nectar.downloaders.local:ERROR: (2921-33184) [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'///var/www/repositories/zoo5/PULP_DISTRIBUTION.xml'
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: nectar.downloaders.local:ERROR: (2921-33184) Traceback (most recent call last):
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: nectar.downloaders.local:ERROR: (2921-33184)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nectar/downloaders/local.py", line 144, in _copy
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: nectar.downloaders.local:ERROR: (2921-33184)     src_handle = open(src_path, 'rb')
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: nectar.downloaders.local:ERROR: (2921-33184) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'///var/www/repositories/zoo5/PULP_DISTRIBUTION.xml'
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.sync:INFO: Sync complete.
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.event.http:INFO: {'call_report': <TaskStatus: TaskStatus object>, 'event_type': 'repo.sync.finish', 'payload': {'importer_id': u'yum_importer', 'exception': None, 'repo_id': u'partello', 'traceback': None, 'started': '2015-05-20T21:32:42Z', '_ns': u'repo_sync_results', 'completed': '2015-05-20T21:32:42Z', 'importer_type_id': u'yum_importer', 'error_message': None, 'summary': {'content': {'state': 'FINISHED'}, 'comps': {'state': 'FINISHED'}, 'distribution': {'state': 'FINISHED'}, 'errata': {'state': 'FINISHED'}, 'metadata': {'state': 'FINISHED'}}, 'added_count': 3, 'result': 'success', 'updated_count': 11, 'details': {'content': {'size_total': 0, 'items_left': 0, 'items_total': 0, 'state': 'FINISHED', 'size_left': 0, 'details': {'rpm_total': 0, 'rpm_done': 0, 'drpm_total': 0, 'drpm_done': 0}, 'error_details': []}, 'comps': {'state': 'FINISHED'}, 'distribution': {'items_total': 3, 'state': 'FINISHED', 'error_details': [], 'items_left': 0}, 'errata': {'state': 'FINISHED'}, 'metadata': {'state': 'FINISHED'}}, 'id': '555cfd7ad01ec00b69cae7f4', 'removed_count': 0}}
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184) Exception from notifier of type [http]
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184) Traceback (most recent call last):
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/managers/event/fire.py", line 76, in _do_fire
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184)     f(l['notifier_config'], event)
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/event/http.py", line 33, in handle_event
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184)     body = json.dumps(data, default=json_util.default)
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184)   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 250, in dumps
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184)     sort_keys=sort_keys, **kw).encode(obj)
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184)   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 207, in encode
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184)     chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184)   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 270, in iterencode
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184)     return _iterencode(o, 0)
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184)   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/bson/json_util.py", line 220, in default
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184)     raise TypeError("%%r is not JSON serializable" %% obj)
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: pulp.server.managers.event.fire:ERROR: (2921-33184) TypeError: <TaskStatus: TaskStatus object> is not JSON serializable
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: celery.worker.job:INFO: Task pulp.server.managers.repo.sync.sync[cd811a9c-be90-4ff3-aa04-d1b6fd0b35a6] succeeded in 0.201764149999s: <pulp.server.async.tasks.TaskResult object at 0x4dd95d0>
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: celery.worker.job:INFO: Task pulp.server.async.tasks._release_resource[ac1d87a3-a26a-427d-8fde-119cf670e9dd] succeeded in 0.00725326400425s: None
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: celery.worker.strategy:INFO: Received task: pulp.server.async.tasks._queue_reserved_task[ad5774d9-3534-42ef-9748-557e21b75ec5]
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: celery.worker.strategy:INFO: Received task: pulp.server.managers.repo.publish.publish[09707c71-c404-433b-86c6-0e0f28a3557b]
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: celery.worker.job:INFO: Task pulp.server.async.tasks._queue_reserved_task[ad5774d9-3534-42ef-9748-557e21b75ec5] succeeded in 0.0815736520017s: None
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: celery.worker.strategy:INFO: Received task: pulp.server.async.tasks._release_resource[9b4fd858-bf97-4de4-ad7d-a8b9be66adc6]
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: celery.worker.job:INFO: Task pulp.server.managers.repo.publish.publish[09707c71-c404-433b-86c6-0e0f28a3557b] succeeded in 0.157991663989s: {'exception': None, 'repo_id': u'partello', 'traceback': None, 'started': '2015-05-20T21:32:42Z', '_ns':...
May 20 17:32:42 katello-wisdom pulp: celery.worker.job:INFO: Task pulp.server.async.tasks._release_resource[9b4fd858-bf97-4de4-ad7d-a8b9be66adc6] succeeded in 0.00436354399426s: None