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Description of problem: If you createrepo then build a client/server from that repo then try to use subscription-manager on that client/server you will have problems. See Bug 962547 Do some change to createrepo so that it automatically sets things up correctly for subscription-manager. This is problematic because traditionally createrepo has just been a reference implementation of taking a directory structure of rpms and making repodata so you can install them. Lots of questions would need to be answered, like where would createrepo look for the pem file ... if it finds that file does it just assume it's correct or does it check it in some way, what does it do if the checks fail. Is the subscription-manager maintainer ready to monitor createrepo and make sure that any changes are always compatible. What does this do for people creating "normal" (non-subscription-manager) repos., how do they disable it etc. etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL6.5/7.0 How reproducible: see above Additional info: We have a lot of customer using reposync, there's a workaround but it can be very painful to figure this out. Can not update a system that is registered with subscription-manager https://access.redhat.com/solutions/183293 I don't see createrepo on ACL list but I see it listed as fasttrack. https://home.corp.redhat.com/wiki/rhel-66-approved-packages
createrepo --subscription-manager-support true
per hartsjc # # Unzip productid, obtain checksum see if already in repomd.xml # [[ -f ${DIR}/${repo}/productid.gz ]] && gunzip -c ${DIR}/${repo}/productid.gz > ${DIR}/${repo}/productid if [[ -f ${DIR}/${repo}/productid ]] ; then FileSUM=$(sha256sum ${DIR}/${repo}/productid | cut -d\ -f1) RepoSUM=$(grep -e 'type="productid"' -e '<open-checksum' ${DIR}/${repo}/repodata/repomd.xml | grep -A1 productid | grep checksum | sed -e 's/<\/open-checksum.*$//' -e 's/^.*>//') if [[ ${FileSUM} != ${RepoSUM:=none} ]] ; then echo -e "Adding productid to ${DIR}/${repo}/repodata/repomd.xml" modifyrepo ${DIR}/${repo}/productid ${DIR}/${repo}/repodata/ >/dev/null fi fi
if using yum-security, need to also account fro updateinfo... # # Unzip latest updateinfo.xml, obtain checksum see if already in repomd.xml # UpdateInfo=$(ls -t ${DIR}/${repo}/*updateinfo.xml.gz* 2>/dev/null | head -n 1) [[ -f ${UpdateInfo} ]] && gunzip -c ${UpdateInfo} > ${DIR}/${repo}/updateinfo.xml if [[ -f ${DIR}/${repo}/updateinfo.xml ]] ; then FileSUM=$(sha256sum ${DIR}/${repo}/updateinfo.xml | cut -d\ -f1) RepoSUM=$(grep -e 'type="updateinfo"' -e '<open-checksum' ${DIR}/${repo}/repodata/repomd.xml | grep -A1 updateinfo | grep checksum | sed -e 's/<\/open-checksum.*$//' -e 's/^.*>//') if [[ ${FileSUM} != ${RepoSUM:=none} ]] ; then echo -e "Adding updateinfo.xml to repomd.xml" modifyrepo ${DIR}/${repo}/updateinfo.xml ${DIR}/${repo}/repodata/ >/dev/null fi fi
Just to put a note here. I could see this becoming obsolete with fixes from this BZ. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123014#c9 As fundamentally not sure creatrepo should have a subscription-manager product key understanding.
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Probably could move/clone this to RHEL 7.