[Spacewalk-list] reposync and rhnpush]

[Michael ORourke]

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From: <m.roth2006 at rcn.com>
To: <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] reposync and rhnpush]


> 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

Yes, significantly different!

> 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?

I have the exact same problem, I suspect that the "reposync" command is 
buggy.
Anyone else run into this problem?

-Mike

>
>     mark
>
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