Hello Stephen,

 

Yes, we have the conntrack-tools in our Red Hat Satellite repository, and we can apply it outside of our Satellite process; by manually copying the rpm to each server and installing outside of our process.

 

The issue is the interworking of the metatdata in the conntrack-tools RPM and Red Hat Satellite date filters for Content Views. Not sure how familiar you are with Red Hat Satellite, but the data filters are the primary method used to create a cyclical patching schedule and thus patch sets based on date.

 

In Red Hat Satellite, if I specify any date inclusion (Like from January 1, 1970 - October 12, 2018) and point it at the EPEL6 repository the filter does not pick up the conntrack-tools. I opened support case with Red Hat, and with their assistance we have a work around, where we don't specify any Satellite date filters for the EPEL repositories (i.e. Get Everything no matter when released) and yes still keep the Satellite date filters on the official Red Hat repositories used to create the combined  Satellite content view.

 

However this work-around does not allow us to recreate a patch content view of EPEL product or patches of any date other than 'today'. Without a date filter we get all EPEL content and patches. This does not work with our Patching paradigm, as we base patch sets on Date. We then use life-cycle management to promote a patch set to Production after it has been vetted on Dev then Test.

 

Red Hat does not support EPEL, and indicated this is not a Satellite issue but a RPM metadata issue with EPEL release process.

 

Let me know if you need further clarification.

 

Best Regards,

John Griffin | Infrastructure Architect

815 NW 9^th Street, Ste 221  |  Corvallis, OR 97330

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jgriffin@samhealth.org

 

 

 

 

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From: Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 2:14 PM
To: epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: [EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL6 conntrack-tools-0.9.13-3.el6.x86_64 metadata possibly incorrect

 

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> We now use Red Hat Satellite 6.3 and have it synchronizing to

> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6Server/

> 

> Recent updates to munin-node and munin-common require conntrack-tools x86_64 0.9.13-3.el6.

> 

> The conntrack-tools  x86_64 0.9.13-3.el6 was release in May 2014, based on rpm -qip, and is in our synchronized EPEL content view on our Satellite.

> 

> We use content view date filters to only select errata (patches) up to a specific date (based on our patch cycle) and publish new content views based on said dates. We stumbled upon the issue that the conntrack-tools x86_64 0.9.13-3.el6 package not being included in the content view, even though it existed in the repository, and our date based content filter should have encompassed the release date of the package. This caused yum update to fail for the munin updates, as the prerequisite could not be satisfied.

 

I need more information like what you are exactly seeing. The conntrack-tools is in the repository and can be downloaded and installed via yum and reposync.

 

> Curious if there is indeed something amiss with this packages metadata, and also if other EPEL packages suffer the same fate. We are concerned that we will not be able to rely on the veracity of EPEL packages and will have to mitigate this in some fashion.

> 

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