How to forcefully regenerate metadata for a particular repository on Red Hat Satellite 6?

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.x
• Metadata re-generation for a particular Repository.

Issue

• How to forcefully regenerate metadata for a particular repository?
• Unable to list the packages under RHEL7 repo after successful synchronization of repositories.
• System registered to Satellite server fails with an error message during yum execution.
• Red Hat Satellite is not regenerating repodata.

# yum repolist
...
Setting up Install Process
https://satellite.example.com/pulp/repos/GSSLAB_ORG/Library/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6Server/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"

Resolution

To regenerate metadata for a repository, follow the below steps:-

• Login to the Satellite WEB UI and navigate to Content --> Products.
• Click on the Product Name to which the repository belongs to and this would list all the available repositories for the Product.
• Now click on the repository name for which metadata needs to be re-generated, this will show more details of the repository.
• In Satellite 6.5-6.10, click to "Select Action" button on top right, and select "Republish Repository Metadata". Wait until the task is completed and you are done.
• Since Satellite 6.11, the WebUI action is gone so a manual command must be executed. Let apply the below steps instead. The opened repository URL would list the repo_id & product_id for this repository.

    https://satellite.example.com/products/89/repositories/12345
    where in the above url :  `12345` is the `repo_id` and `89` is the product_id.

• run this command from Satellite shell - replace 12345 by your repository ID:

echo "ForemanTasks.async_task(Actions::Katello::Repository::MetadataGenerate, Katello::Repository.find(12345))" | foreman-rake console

• Wait until the task is completed.

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

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