How to forcefully regenerate metadata of a content view or repository on Red Hat Satellite 6?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6

Issue

  • How to recreate metadata of a Content View or Repository?

  • Unable to update package(s) and the below error is faced:

    https://satellite.lab.example.com/pulp/repos/Organization/Library/RHEL7_Baseline/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found

Resolution

  • To forcefully regenerate metadata of a Content View or Repository, the below steps need to be followed on the Red Hat Satellite WebUI:

    • For a Content View:

      • Go to Content -> Content Views -> Select the particular Content View -> Click on Publish New Version -> Check mark the box of Force Yum Metadata Regeneration -> Save.

    • For an existing version of Content View:

      • Go to Content -> Content Views -> Select the content view -> Click Versions tab -> Click in Actions column beside Promote drop down arrow -> Regenerate Repository Metadata

    • For a particular repository:

      • Go to Content -> Products -> Select the Product -> Click on the particular repository -> Select Action -> Republish Repository Metadata.

    • Via hammer:

      # hammer content-view version republish-repositories --content-view-id 4  --version 2.0

      Replace 4 and 2.0 according to your environment.

          # hammer content-view list    ==> this gives the content-view-id for the concerned content view
    # hammer content-view info --id=4    ==> this gives the version of that content view. [ replace 4 by the id from previous command ]

  • For pulp-3 / since Satellite 6.10, follow this solution and hammer command like:

hammer content-view version republish-repositories --id 23 --force true

to forcefully republish a given Content View version.

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Content View Issues, please refer to the Red Hat Satellite Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Content View Issues

Root Cause

  • The repodata of a Content View or Repository is unavailable or corrupted.

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