jbappplatform-7.2-x86_64-server-7-rpm' channel not available in Satellite 5.8 cdn-syn-mappings file

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.8
  • Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.2

Issue

  • The cdn-syn-mappings file satellite 5 utilizes doesn't have the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 channel ('jbappplatform-7.2-x86_64-server-7-rpm') mapped to the jb-eap-7.2 cdn repository. The channel is not visible via cdn-sync -l nor in /usr/share/rhn/cdn-sync/rhn_cdn_mappings.json file.

  • This affects RHV-m upgrades from version 4.1 up to 4.2 since version 4.2 needs to count with the repository 'jbappplatform-7.2-x86_64-server-7-rpm' enabled in order the upgrade may finish successful.

Upgrading the Manager from 4.1 to 4.2

Resolution

  • The channel is now available in satellite 5.8 with latest cdn-sync-mappings package.
  • Update below package on satellite to the latest version:
# yum update cdn-sync-mappings
# cdn-sync -l | grep jbappplatform-7.2

Note: package version should be cdn-sync-mappings-2.39-1.el6sat.noarch or later.

Root Cause

  • The cdn-sync-mappings file is used by satellite 5 to matches the relative URL from the RHN channel naming to the CDN repository name, all the metadata in satellite 5 still uses RHN servers and APIs in order to get all the rpms from the cdn repositories. The latest file *cdn-sync-mappings-2.30-1.el6sat.noarch doesn't have the jbappplatform-7.2-x86_64-server-7-rpm channel mapping the relative URL for the cdn repository name jb-eap-7.2-for-rhel-7-server-rpms hence RHV-M cannot be upgraded from version 4.1 up to 4.2 because of the missing channel.

Diagnostic Steps

  • Sample outputs:
# rpm -qa cdn-sync-mappings
cdn-sync-mappings-2.39-1.el6sat.noarch

# cdn-sync -l | grep -i jbappplatform-7
21:46:52     . jbappplatform-7.0-i386-server-6-rpm                    934 packages    (1.5G)
21:46:52     . jbappplatform-7.0-i386-server-6-rpm-debuginfo            0 packages    (0.0B)
21:46:52     . jbappplatform-7.1-i386-server-6-rpm                   1674 packages    (2.4G)
21:46:52     . jbappplatform-7.1-i386-server-6-rpm-debuginfo            3 packages  (226.7K)
21:46:54     . jbappplatform-7.0-x86_64-server-6-rpm                  947 packages    (1.5G)
21:46:54     . jbappplatform-7.0-x86_64-server-6-rpm-debuginfo          0 packages    (0.0B)
21:46:54     . jbappplatform-7.1-x86_64-server-6-rpm                 1699 packages    (2.4G)
21:46:54     . jbappplatform-7.1-x86_64-server-6-rpm-debuginfo          3 packages  (234.0K)
21:46:54     . jbappplatform-7.2-x86_64-server-6-rpm                    ? packages      (?B)
21:46:54     . jbappplatform-7.2-x86_64-server-6-rpm-debuginfo          ? packages      (?B)
21:46:55     . jbappplatform-7.0-x86_64-server-7-rpm                  947 packages    (1.4G)
21:46:55     . jbappplatform-7.0-x86_64-server-7-rpm-debuginfo          0 packages    (0.0B)
21:46:55     . jbappplatform-7.1-x86_64-server-7-rpm                 1699 packages    (2.3G)
21:46:55     . jbappplatform-7.1-x86_64-server-7-rpm-debuginfo          3 packages  (211.7K)
21:46:55     . jbappplatform-7.2-x86_64-server-7-rpm                    ? packages      (?B)
21:46:55     . jbappplatform-7.2-x86_64-server-7-rpm-debuginfo          ? packages      (?B)

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