Exporting repositories

Koji provides some limited features for exporting repositories of RPMs. Please note that Koji is a build system, not a repository manager, and these features are secondary. If you need more robust repository generation than Koji provides, then you may want to look into using pungi.

Koji’s internal repositories

Koji uses yum repositories as part of its build process for RPMs. These repositories are used by the builders to generate buildroots. Their generation is focused on that purpose, and they are not really suitable for export. However, they can be useful for simple cases.

Koji’s internal repositories can be accessed at <topdir>/repos/<tag_name>/<repo_id> For a given tag name, there will be multiple repo ids over time as tag content changes. The current repo for a given tag can be determined with a call to getRepo.

For convenience, Koji also maintains a “latest” symlink for each tag: <topdir>/repos/<tag_name>/latest. Please note that this symlink changes over time, which could break a yum transaction.

Dist-repos

The simplest way to create a distribution-ready repo is to use the koji dist-repo command. It allows users with access to generate a more robust yum repository from the contents of a given tag. These repos differ from the internal ones in several key ways:

  • generation is user-controlled via the dist-repo command

  • supports using signed rpms

  • supports multilib

  • allows for more customized comps data

  • supports deltarpm generation

  • can split debuginfo into separate repos

  • can generate zchunk files

Access control

In order to use the dist-repo command, a user must satisfy one of the following:

  • have the dist-repo permission

  • have the admin permission

  • satisfy the requirements of the dist_repo policy

For more information about hub policies, see Defining Hub Policies.

Usage

The dist-repo command takes a tag name and one or more key ids for signing keys.

koji dist-repo [options] <tag> <key_id> [<key_id> …]

The tag argument must be a valid tag name. The resulting repository will be based on the contents of that tag. Any valid tag will work, whether or not it has an associated target.

Koji will attempt to find a signed copy for each rpm matching one of the given key_id arguments (searching in the order given). Normally, Koji will error if there is no matching signed copy for any of the rpms. This behavior can be modified with the --allow-missing-signatures or --skip-missing-signatures options. The key_id argument may be omitted entirely if the --allow-missing-signatures option is specified.

Koji will export the repository to <topdir>/repos-dist/<tag_name>/<repo_id> The current dist repo for a given tag can be determined with a call to getRepo(dist=True). Similar to internal build repos, Koji also maintains a “latest” symlink for each tag: <topdir>/repos-dist/<tag_name>/latest.

Various features of repo generation (e.g. multilib support, delta rpms, or zchunk files) are controlled via command options. For a full list of options, see koji dist-repo --help.

Koji Hub plugin

Fedora release engineering uses a hub plugin tag2distrepo to automatically export dist-repos for certain tags.

Beyond Koji

If you’re aiming to have more control about repositories, varieties of distribution flavours, etc. use pungi which can create whole composes and which uses Koji for some of the subtasks. Pungi + koji is what Fedora currently uses for composes.