Creating monthy snapshot of repositories

[vishalspatil]

First of all Happy New Year, I have started using dtmrepo to sync rhel 7 channel from RHN.

the requirement now is to freeze a snapshot of repository synced from RHN every month with a date.

So that it can be used to maintain a patch baseline for updating packages on all severs for a single customer. [All Servers of a customer should be on same patch level]

Do you have any kind of script readily available to achieve this.

[dtmateojr]

I have created a separate script that performs a "cheap copy" of a repo. It basically creates hard links so save space and at the same time preserve older packages that dtmrepo might throw away when newer packages are downloaded. I'll upload the script tomorrow.

Cheers,

Demo

On 8 Jan 2015, at 19:23, vishalspatil [email protected] wrote:

First of all Happy New Year, I have started using dtmrepo to sync rhel 7 channel from RHN.

the requirement now is to freeze a snapshot of repository synced from RHN every month with a date.

So that it can be used to maintain a patch baseline for updating packages on all severs for a single customer. [All Servers of a customer should be on same patch level]

Do you have any kind of script readily available to achieve this.

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[vishalspatil]

Thanks you very much dtmateo,

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:30 PM, dtmateojr [email protected] wrote:

I have created a separate script that performs a "cheap copy" of a repo.
It basically creates hard links so save space and at the same time preserve
older packages that dtmrepo might throw away when newer packages are
downloaded. I'll upload the script tomorrow.

Cheers,

Demo

On 8 Jan 2015, at 19:23, vishalspatil [email protected] wrote:

First of all Happy New Year, I have started using dtmrepo to sync rhel 7
channel from RHN.

the requirement now is to freeze a snapshot of repository synced from
RHN every month with a date.

So that it can be used to maintain a patch baseline for updating
packages on all severs for a single customer. [All Servers of a customer
should be on same patch level]

Do you have any kind of script readily available to achieve this.

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Regards
Vishal

[dtmateojr]

Have a look at the clone script. To create a snapshot of your repo simply do
clone myrepo myrepo-clone

That will create a "snapshot" cheap copy of myrepo. You can then serve myrepo-clone to your clients.

[vishalspatil]

Thanks you again , I will check.

[vishalspatil]

Hi dtmateo,

Hope you are doing good, I just came across one problem for on my repo
server[using dtmrepo]

when we sync from RHSM the repodata folder is created outside the
os,optional and supplementary repo.

[root@dtmrepo rhel7s-x86_64]# ls
optional os supplementary

[root@dtmrepo optional]# ls
repodata rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

[root@dtmrepo os]# ls
repodata rhel-7-server-rpms

so when we provide the baseurl in repo file it is unable to find repod.xml

http://dtmrepo.xyz.com/dtmrepo/rhel7s-x86_64/supplementary/rhel-7-server-supplementary-rpms/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found

can you let us know where can we tune this parameter in dtmrepo script so
that repodata folder is created inside the os,optional and supplemenatry
repo folder.

Thanks in advance.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 9:40 AM, dtmateojr [email protected] wrote:

Have a look at the clone script. To create a snapshot of your repo simply
do
clone myrepo myrepo-clone

That will create a "snapshot" cheap copy of myrepo. You can then serve
myrepo-clone to your clients.

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Vishal

[dtmateojr]

Is it able to generate the repo data? Have a look inside repodata and make sure the files are there. Repodata creation may fail if you have broken RPMS. Also make sure that you have the correct SELinux context otherwise do

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /path/to/your/repo

On 1 May 2015, at 1:44, vishalspatil [email protected] wrote:

Hi dtmateo,

Hope you are doing good, I just came across one problem for on my repo
server[using dtmrepo]

when we sync from RHSM the repodata folder is created outside the
os,optional and supplementary repo.

[root@dtmrepo rhel7s-x86_64]# ls
optional os supplementary

[root@dtmrepo optional]# ls
repodata rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

[root@dtmrepo os]# ls
repodata rhel-7-server-rpms

so when we provide the baseurl in repo file it is unable to find repod.xml

http://dtmrepo.xyz.com/dtmrepo/rhel7s-x86_64/supplementary/rhel-7-server-supplementary-rpms/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found

can you let us know where can we tune this parameter in dtmrepo script so
that repodata folder is created inside the os,optional and supplemenatry
repo folder.

Thanks in advance.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 9:40 AM, dtmateojr [email protected] wrote:

Have a look at the clone script. To create a snapshot of your repo simply
do
clone myrepo myrepo-clone

That will create a "snapshot" cheap copy of myrepo. You can then serve
myrepo-clone to your clients.

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Vishal
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