Hi, Just as a follow-up to my last note: as of 2.1.3, setting the checksum-type to sha or sha1 was not sufficient. You will still end up with groupinfo and updateinfo metadata files created with sha256 checksums unless you change the Python for modifyrepo.
/usr/share/createrepo/modifyrepo.py Christina On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Barnaby Court <bco...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi, When you create a repo you can manually specify the checksum using the > --checksum-type flag. For sha I would recommend using "sha1" as the value > in order to be as clear as possible as to which checksum type you mean. > Regards, > > Barnabhy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Bielawa" <tbiel...@redhat.com> > To: "Josh Baird" <jba...@follett.com>, pulp-list@redhat.com > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 1:26:42 PM > Subject: Re: [Pulp-list] Creating RHEL 5 compatible yum repositories > > Thanks for the lightning-fast response! > > How about the specific use case of creating a net-new repository of > 'SHA' type? Syncing repositories is working well for us > > It's creating new ones which are giving us issues. > > > "Baird, Josh" <jba...@follett.com> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > This was fixed in 2.3.0 [1]. We are successfully syncing RHEL5 > repositories with 2.3+. > > > > [1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029057 > > > > Thanks, > > > > Josh > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: pulp-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:pulp-list-boun...@redhat.com] > On Behalf Of Tim Bielawa > > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 1:18 PM > > To: pulp-list@redhat.com > > Subject: [Pulp-list] Creating RHEL 5 compatible yum repositories > > > > Prelude: This is in response to BZ1042208 [0], "rpm metadata ignores > --checksum-type from repository" > > > > Has anyone else experienced issues/victories using pulp 2.1+ to create > YUM repositories which are compatible with RHEL 5? > > > > Specifically, I am referring to pulp setting/not setting the checksum > type of a newly created repository correctly? > > > > I have a large number of RHEL 5 boxen to maintain and when we migrated > to Pulp 2.1 from 1.x we began seeing an issue where: > > > >> pulp-admin ... rpm repo create --checksum-type sha ... > > > > does not honor the '--checksum-type' option [1], and instead creates all > new repositories of type SHA256. This causes a backwards compatibility > issue with our RHEL 5 boxes who only support the SHA checksum type. > > > > I am aware of the python-hashlib package, and have verified that > installing it successfully allows RHEL 5 boxen to consume repositories of > the SHA256 checksum type. However, IMHO this is a non-obvious work around, > and not a change I (or other system administrators) can potentially make > across my entire RHEL 5 infrastructure without a lot of coordination and > approvals. > > > > Thanks for any advice! > > > > > > [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1042208 > > [1] https://github.com/juicer/juicer/issues/202 > > > > -- > > Tim Bielawa, Senior Release Engineer/Scribe, Inception Why Should I Care > What Color the Bikeshed Is? > > http://bikeshed.com/ > > 919.332.6411 Cell | IRC: tbielawa (#inception) > > 1BA0 4FAB 4C13 FBA0 A036 4958 AD05 E75E 0333 AE37 > > -- > Tim Bielawa, Senior Release Engineer/Scribe, Inception > Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? > http://bikeshed.com/ > 919.332.6411 Cell | IRC: tbielawa (#inception) > 1BA0 4FAB 4C13 FBA0 A036 4958 AD05 E75E 0333 AE37 > > _______________________________________________ > Pulp-list mailing list > Pulp-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list > > _______________________________________________ > Pulp-list mailing list > Pulp-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list >
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