[Spacewalk-list] Adding packages to a channel

[Tom Brown]

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> This doc outlines it:
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> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UploadFedoraContent
>

can i also ask what is the purpose of having the package on the 
filesystem twice, ie once in the downloaded mirror of the dir and then 
again in the /var/satellite/foo dir ??

so is there a way to 'mirror' repo's without putting the rpm's on the 
filesystem first?

thanks