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I've added a "sister" ticket to CentOS here:

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16470

This could be a bug on their end.

It's a really ugly hack, but you can use an Apache rewrite to work around this. I was able to add a rewrite rule to /etc/httpd/conf.d/pulp_rpm.conf and set the /pulp/repos/ Location to:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName hostname.domain.com

  ## Vhost docroot
  DocumentRoot "/usr/share/foreman/public" 

  ## Directories, there should at least be a declaration for /usr/share/foreman/public
  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule (.*)/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/(.*) $1/custom/CentOS_8/CentOS_8_-_Base/repodata/$2 [R]
  </IfModule>

This works successfully, and I was able to kickstart my install but isn't very generalizable as a fix because the path will differ for each deployment.

Hello,

I've exactly the same issue (Foreman 1.23 / Katello 3.13).

Regards,
Florian

I've just tested this and provisioning CentOS 8 works if the Appstream repo is sent to Anaconda. The related code is here: https://github.com/Katello/katello/blob/master/app/services/katello/managed_content_medium_provider.rb#L19

To get it work I created an "AppStream" repo (http://mirror.centos.org/centos-8/8/AppStream/x86_64/os/) in the same lifecycle environment and content view as my CentOS 8 repo and synced it. Then, after host creation, I checked that my kickstart file mentioned AppStream (like `repo --name AppStream --baseurl http://foreman-nuc1.example.com/pulp/repos/Demo/Library/custom/CentOS/AppStream/`). That should be done automatically.

I'll update our provisioning documentation to include this scenario.

Ian,
I was able to successfully provision a CentOS 8 host from Satellite 6.5 with your suggestion of adding the "AppStream" repository to the provisioning template. As it turns out, the default template "Kickstart default" already includes code that specifies the additional repository, except the name is not "AppStream" (the repository name below, "centos-8-appstream-x86_64", is site specific).

Template snippet:

<%= @mediapath %><%= proxy_string %>
<% @additional_media.each do |medium| -%>
repo --name <%= medium[:name] %> --baseurl <%= medium[:url] %> <%= medium[:install] ? ' --install' : '' %>
<% end -%>

Rendered template snippet:

url --url http://satellite.example.com/pulp/repos/Example_Organization/Example_Lifecycle/centos-linux-8-standard/custom/centos-linux/centos-8-release-x86_64/
repo --name centos-8-appstream-x86_64 --baseurl http://satellite.example.com/pulp/repos/Example_Organization/Example_Lifecycle/centos-linux-8-standard/custom/centos-linux/centos-8-appstream-x86_64/

I had to update the template to change the name of the repository to "AppStream" (I know the code below is not ideal, but it works for this specific case):

Template snippet:

<%= @mediapath %><%= proxy_string %>
<% @additional_media.each do |medium| -%>
<% if (@host.operatingsystem.name == 'CentOS_Linux' and os_major >= 8) -%>
repo --name AppStream --baseurl <%= medium[:url] %> <%= medium[:install] ? ' --install' : '' %>
<% else -%>
repo --name <%= medium[:name] %> --baseurl <%= medium[:url] %> <%= medium[:install] ? ' --install' : '' %>
<% end -%>
<% end -%>

Rendered template snippet:

url --url http://satellite.example.com/pulp/repos/Example_Organization/Example_Lifecycle/centos-linux-8-standard/custom/centos-linux/centos-8-release-x86_64/
repo --name AppStream --baseurl http://satellite.example.com/pulp/repos/Example_Organization/Example_Lifecycle/centos-linux-8-standard/custom/centos-linux/centos-8-appstream-x86_64/

Thanks
Matthew LeSieur

Hey Matthew, thanks for the detailed info there on getting provisioning working with different naming. I agree that the real bug here is with CentOS 8 & Anaconda. In the meantime, we'll direct people to either change the AppStream repo name or to edit the existing provisioning template / make a new one specific for CentOS 8.

I believe this needs to be fixed in Pulp, that's the cleanest thing we can do. Filed: https://pulp.plan.io/issues/6470