Building RPM-based repositories in Pulp

Although installing Pulp is quite a complex process, once it is installed, the process of managing repositories is incredibly straightforward. However, it does require a little knowledge of the repository structure for your chosen Linux distribution. Let's continue with the CentOS 7 build that we have been using as an example throughout this book.

The core CentOS 7 repositories are split into two—first of all, there is the OS repository; this contains all of the files for the latest point release of CentOS 7—which, at the time of writing, is 7.6. This was last updated in November 2018 and will remain static until CentOS 7.7 is released. The updates for this release are then contained in a separate ...

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