Reputation: 813

how to generate metadata for RPM repository in Artifactory

We generate RPMs in the process of our daily development and we these RPMs will be deployed into production environment.

All these RPMs will be stored in a local yum repository and we just use "yum install package" to install any RPMs.

We want to use either Artifactory or Nexus (only OSS versions) to manage our packages as both can be used as YUM repositories and we are trying to evaluate both of them first.

I have installed Artifactory OSS version first to evaluate.

Created a test repo
uploaded a RPM file into that test repo
Created a artifactory.repo with artifactory repository path in /etc/yum.repos.d

But, when I try to install that RPM using yum install I am getting below error

http://artifactory-server:8080/artifactory/testrepo/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from artifactory: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

I did understand the error, it was looking for metadata in that repository and its not present.

I did see an option of creating meta data automatically but, that seems to be only for PRO version.

That means can't we use Artifactory OSS as a yum repository? I think there should be a way to use it as YUM repo at least with basic features. I think I am missing something here.

My questions:

Can't we generate metadata automatically with Artifactory OSS version? Can any one please let me know how to use Artifactory OSS version as a YUM repo ?
Which one is better for my requirement Artifactory/Nexus (open source versions)

Upvotes: 0