[Spacewalk-list] Reposync

[Michael Mraka]

Anoop Bhat wrote:
% I’m using reposync to sync the packages and push them to spacewalk.
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% For x86_64, I use arch=x86_64 and it works just fine.
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% For IA-32, I use i386 but it doesn’t grab the i686 packages. Should I be running multiple reposync commands with different arch specs or is there one that will do it?
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% When I ran arch=i686, I only got about 1200 packages and httpd wasn’t one of them. I had to run arch=i386 to get httpd but then I missed all the i686 packages.
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% My understanding is that i386, i686 are both IA-32.

There is new spacewalk-repo-sync command in Spacewalk 0.6 which is able to 
sync directly from remote (yum) repo. AFAIK it handles i386/i586/i686 packages
correctly.

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat