SUSE Content

Katello can be used to manage content associated with SUSE products based upon contents mirrored via the smt tool. This includes content such as RPMs, errata.

Definitions

• Repository - Collection of content (either rpm).
• Product - Collection of repositories (content hosts attach to a product).
• Library - The initial lifecycle environment where repositories are created. Content that is synced or uploaded lands in the library.

General Workflow

The following is a high-level summary of the workflow:

• Set up SUSE account and smt server
• Set up the smt mirroring and Content
• Create Products and Repositories

Set up SUSE account and SMT server

Assuming you have an SCC account, setup the SMT server, click here for more documentation.

• Install smt

   # zypper install smt
   # yast smt-server
  

• A TUI will pop up and you are going to have to add credentials from your account, found in scc.suse.com, as shown in screenshot below
• Click ok and proceed with the steps provided, it will finish up and exit

Set up the SMT Content and mirroring

On a SLES 12 Box

• Sync repo data

  # smt-sync
  

• List Repositories

  # smt-repos
  

• Install the repositories you need to mirror via the smt-repos -e flag. For example to mirror SLES12-SP3-Pool

  # smt-repos -e SLES12-SP3-Pool
  

• Check the enabled repos

  # smt-repos -o
  

• Mirror the repositories

  # smt-mirror
  

• This should install an apache2 on that host

  # service apache2 restart
  

  You should be able to navigate to the mirror by browsing to http://<fqdn>/repo/

Create Products and Repositories

• Follow the steps listed here to create Products and Repositories
• Follow the steps listed on the same link as above to create a yum repository with the repository url pointing to the appropriate location. For example http://<fqdn>/repo/SUSE/Products/SLE-SERVER/12-SP3/x86_64/product/