<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> We are trying to sync an OpenSuSE repository using spacewalk-repo-sync (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/python/SLE_11_SP3/">http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/python/SLE_11_SP3/</a> ) . The repo contains RPMs for different architectures (x86_64, i586, ia64) but we are only interested in the x86_64 ones. We have set the architecture for the channel to x86_64. The spacewalk-repo-sync command fails at the point it comes to link the packages into the channel with the message: "ERROR: Package arch ia64 incompatible with channel sle11-sp3-python-channel2" I've traced the code as it runs and see that problem occurs in the file packageImport.py. The method __copyChannels( ) in the file packageImport.py is used to check that a package's architecture is compatible with the channel architecture. If the package doesn't match the channel architcture the __copyChannels methods throws an IncompatibleArchError and then the code exits. So if there are any ia64 or ppc packages in an upstream repository we can't sync the repository. Should this be a fatal error? Should the error be caught and dealt with more gracefully? I've added a try/except and this allows the code to run to completion, but I'm concerned about what else I might affect by doing this. Is there something we may have misconfigured? thanks Jon </body> </html>