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Add notes on reprepro _addreference

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I had to figure out this command to restore some of our reprepro
mirrors, add notes on it.

Cleanup some other things I noticed; quotes around REPREPRO command,
clarify the situation with pointing mirrors at the RO/RW volumes and
refactor discussion.

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Ian Wienand 2018-03-19 13:51:23 +11:00
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@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ For convenience, setup the common ``reprepo`` options for verbose
logging, the configuration directory and to work on the local
database::
# export REPREPRO=reprepro -VVV --confdir /etc/reprepro/ubuntu --dbdir ~/db
# export REPREPRO="reprepro -VVV --confdir /etc/reprepro/ubuntu --dbdir ~/db"
From the upstream recovery document, the ``references.db`` can be
removed and recreated quickly with::
@ -140,6 +140,22 @@ to be corrupt, you can remove ``xenial-security`` from
You can then re-add the entries and run another update, which should
resync everything from fresh.
You may also see errors relating to individual packages not being
referenced correctly::
checking references to 'bionic|main|arm64' for 'texlive-latex-base': pool/main/t/texlive-base/texlive-latex-base_2017.20180305-1_all.deb
Missing reference to 'pool/main/t/texlive-base/texlive-latex-base_2017.20180305-1_all.deb' by 'bionic|main|arm64'
...
There have been errors!
In this case, the ``_addreference`` command can be useful. The
parameters are the *filekey*, which is the path to the file, and the
*identifier*, which is the tuple ``bionic|main|arm64`` above. To
restore the reference try::
# $REPREPRO _addreference pool/main/t/texlive-base/texlive-latex-base_2017.20180305-1_all.deb 'bionic|main|arm64'
Adding reference to 'pool/main/t/texlive-base/texlive-latex-base_2017.20180305-1_all.deb' by 'bionic|main|arm64'
Remember to put the databases back in place::
# mv /afs/.openstack.org/mirror/ubuntu/db /afs/.openstack.org/mirror/ubuntu/db.old
@ -147,9 +163,10 @@ Remember to put the databases back in place::
To stage a recovery prior to release, you can modify the
``mirror_root`` argument in ``openstack_project::mirror`` puppet to
point to the RW mirror ``/afs/.openstack.org/mirror`` (rather than the
released RO ``/afs/openstack.org/mirror``). This way you can switch
back quickly if things don't work.
point Apache to the RW mirror ``/afs/.openstack.org/mirror`` where
fixes are deployed, rather than the released RO
``/afs/openstack.org/mirror``. This way you can avoid having to
release the RO mirror and switch back quickly if things don't work.
You can then either manually run ``vos release``, or restore cron and
let the next ``reprepro-mirror-update`` run do it.
When fixed, you can either manually run ``vos release``, or restore
cron and let the next ``reprepro-mirror-update`` run do it.