RPM Repository Missing filelists Metadata

[MattMencel]

Infos:

• Used Zammad version: 2.1.x
• Used Zammad installation source: RPM Package
• Operating system: CentOS 7.4

Zammad is installed using a Chef cookbook I created. I have a yum_repository Chef resource that sets up the Zammad repo file, but my Chef runs fail because of the two commands below.

It seems the zammad repo is not standard and is missing filelists.xml.gz metadata file?

Expected behavior:

• yum makecache should work
• needs-restarting should work

Actual behavior:

• Neither works and causes Chef client to fail.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

# yum -q -y makecache --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=zammad
Error: requested datatype filelists not available

# needs-restarting
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/bin/needs-restarting", line 240, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "/bin/needs-restarting", line 209, in main
    for oldpkg in my.pkgSack.searchFiles(just_fn): # ghostfiles are always bogons
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 468, in searchFiles
    return self._computeAggregateListResult("searchFiles", name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 595, in _computeAggregateListResult
    sackResult = apply(method, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 46, in newFunc
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 957, in searchFiles
    self.populate(repo, mdtype='filelists')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 251, in populate
    xml = repo_get_function()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1919, in getFileListsXML
    return self.retrieveMD('filelists')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1816, in retrieveMD
    return self._retrieveMD(mdtype)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1824, in _retrieveMD
    thisdata = self.repoXML.getData(mdtype)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/repoMDObject.py", line 208, in getData
    raise RepoMDError, "requested datatype %s not available" % type
yum.Errors.RepoMDError: requested datatype filelists not available

[hanneshal]

@monotek @rkaldung any ideas on this?

[rkaldung]

Should an upstream problem with the package service, we don't create the repos on our own.

[MattMencel]

Do I need to create an issue with the upstream package service instead?

[thorsteneckel]

@MattMencel - yes please do so (if still required) over at https://github.com/crohr/pkgr/issues. Closing now since it's not directly Zammad related.

[lr1980]

Hi,

why is filelists.xml.gz missing on yum/rpm repos?

Best regards
Lutz Reinhardt

Hey Lutz,

Because these indexes are quite large and can slow indexing down, we let owners turn it on or off for their repositories at their discretion: https://packagecloud.io/docs/#disable_filelists

You'll have to contact the repository owner and ask them to turn it on if you'd like to use this index.

Cheers,
Julio

--
Julio Capote
support@packagecloud.io

[rkaldung]

@monotek Let's enable indexing. I don't see any reason against it and using Chef is a always a good idea.

[monotek]

We're using packager.io not packagecloud.io

[rkaldung]

.oO That's right. I can't find anything related in the documentation. @monotek And you?

[monotek]

No.

[crohr]

@lr1980 filelists are not generated on Packager.io, because we typically package rails apps with all their dependencies + ruby interpreter, and that results in thousands of files in the package. Over time with tens of package versions in the repo this results in filelists that take hundreds of MB and way too long to download and parse on the receiving server.

[monotek]

thanks for clarification :-)

[Charburner]

So we can safely ignore the error message now and in the future?

Error: requested datatype filelists not available

( I just got it for the zammad repo after running yum makecache)