[Spacewalk-list] reposync and rhnpush]

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

John,

>Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:07:56 +0000 (GMT)
>From: John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>  
>On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
>
>> No, I haven't resposync'd yet, I'm trying to understand what I'm going to
>> do, an d what's going to happen, and I do *not* want to blow out a
>> filesystem while doing it <g>.
<snip>
>The deal is:
>
>reposync dumps some packages in some directory.  Where doesn't massively
>matter, it doesn't even matter if it's on the same machine.
>
>rhnpush transfers these packages to the spacewalk server, where they are
>secreted in /var/satellite/redhat in a structure that is not the same as
>reposync will create.
>
>You need to do both of those things, and details can vary.

Ahh - the directory structure's different, is it? Hmmm

And on a side note, what's with reposync? The o/s I'm running on is 32-bit, but the command I used was
reposync -a x86_64 --repoid=base -p /var/satellite/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/CentOS -g -n
But it ignored the -a (and --arch=) flag, and overrides me, giving me the i386 rpms. Do I need a special configuration file, so as to not be overridden?

     mark