ManageRepositoriesWithQuattor

Quick Summary

[0. on first time only] Edit sites/iihe-production/site/repositories.pan + runcheck
1. update repository:

On proxy, run /scripts/proxy/manage_repositories.pl --sync MY_REPO_NAME

OR On proxy add rpm to your repo in /var/www/html/local_repositories/

2. Make new snapshot:

On proxy, run /scripts/proxy/manage_repositories.pl --snapshot MY_REPO_NAME

3. Update snapshot date in quattor:

Edit sites/iihe-production/site/repositories.pan and modify the snapshot date in REPOSITORIES dict, OR to add new snapshot date for only one machine add the line

variable REPOSITORIES = update_snapshot_date_for_host('icinga2', 'sl6_epel', '1454598887');

4. If you updated a base repository of a distribution (sl7x_base_x86_64 for instance) you need to copy the content of isolinux/ from the snapshot directory to the AII server /osinstall/nbp/THE_DISTRIB_DIR directory, so that the files vmlinuz & initrd.img are up-to-date with the rest of the packages.

I. Prepare the repo on the proxy server

a. Quattor config

You need to edit the file sites/iihe-production/site/repositories.pan and add your repository here:

    'elastic_5x_el', dict('descr', 'Elastic repository for 5.x packages',
                       'url', 'https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/5.x/yum',
                       'mirror', true,
                       'snapshot_date', '1504525687'
                  ),

The repo name needs to follow those requirements:
1. First the repo name, with version if available
2 The el version it is for: el6 | el7 | el

• el is if it works on whatever OS release number.
• el7 repos should work for both sl7x and cos7x OS for instance

3. The architecture: x86_64 | noarch

• If the repo contains packages for x86 & noarch, then omit the arch requirement

There are 3 types of repositories: mirrored, local or direct repos.

1. mirrorred repos are the most common ones: they will have a local mirror on our proxy, and are snapshoted.

To declare such a repo, the following fields are required:

• distant url or mirrorlist [reminder:repositories for base OS use rsync, thus only url can be used],
• mirror set to true
• a snapshot_date (see step X.Y)

2. local repos are our private ones, where we put ~random packages. They are snapshoted too. Note that no distant Urls exist.

To declare such a repo, the following fields are required:

• mirror set to false
• a snapshot_date (see step X.Y)

3. direct repos: you use directly the distant repository, with only a proxypass and cache on our proxy. To use it, directly got to step X.Y.

To declare such a repo, the following fields are required:

• distant url,
• mirror set to false

II. Sync repo on proxy

Note that OS base repositories (ie containing _base_ need to use rsync protocol, so distant repo requires to allow this protocol. Set the url to the http protocol, the manage_repositories.pl script will replace it by rsync to sync the repo.