Story #2211
Updated by mhrivnak about 8 years ago
This comes from a need by katello to sync kickstart trees for Project Atomic. For all of pulp's life, it has assumed that a "distribution" unit must be part of a yum repository. Atomic has proven that to not be true. In the face of some unfortunate work-arounds, I did a quick investigation to see how close the current yum_importer is to being able to sync a distribution with no yum metadata present. It turned out to be very easy, and I had a working PoC in about 10 minutes. The existing logic for skipping yum-related steps was easy to use. We just need to change the error handling when repomd.xml can't be found, so that instead of failing the task, it sets the "skip_repomd_steps" flag and allows the distribution sync to continue. Turning the PoC into a PR will be very easy. Here is a repo to test with that does not have yum metadata: with: https://ci.centos.org/artifacts/sig-atomic/centos-continuous/images-alpha/installer/latest/images/ And here is one that does have yum metadata (the case we've always handled): http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/CentOS/7/os/x86_64/ To test: * create a yum repo in pulp with a feed to the above repo, or a similar one * sync the repo * verify that the repo contains 1 distribution unit after the sync runs
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