[Spacewalk-list] Repo Maintenance with spacewalk-reposync

[Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL]

Hello All-

 

I've been seeing interesting oddities with my spacewalk channels syncing
over time on Spacewalk 1.3.  One issue that keeps cropping up is my
spacewalk channels will inexplicably contain more packages than the actual
upstream channels, even though when I run the repo sync command it reports
that the upstream repo has the correct number of packages.  For instance,
this morning my CentOS OS repo had 4400+ packages in it and running the
repo-sync command reported that there were 3535 packages in the upstream
repo.  Not sure how it happens, but I get multiple copies some of the
packages.  I've been deleting all of the packages in my SW repo once a week
and letting it do a complete re-sync in order to get the correct number of
packages.  Has anyone else seen this behavior?  If so, are there any better
ways to handle it?  I've set up my repo syncs to run nightly from a cron
with the format "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel centos5-os-x86_64
--url http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/ --type yum".  I would
think that's ok, but maybe I should be running something slightly different,
or have better luck setting up the syncs through the web UI?

 

Another issue I get is random 

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