[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk-repo-sync keeps on syncing the same rpms

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 01:45:52PM +0200, Jan Hutař wrote:
> Could you please change your repos setup to point directly to
> ^^^? This way we know whether this is a problem in Spacewalk
> (same issue appears again) or in your mirror setup (your problem
> will disappear).

So I tried this and spacewalk-repo-sync synced the same 126 packages
again but died with a:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync", line 100, in ?
    sys.exit(abs(main() or 0))
  File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync", line 93, in main
    sync.sync()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/satellite_tools/reposync.py", line 100, in sync
    self.import_packages(plugin, repo_id, url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/satellite_tools/reposync.py", line 303, in import_packages
    packages = plug.list_packages(filters)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/satellite_tools/repo_plugins/yum_src.py", line 151, in list_packages
    self.sack.populate(self.repo, 'metadata', None, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 168, in populate
    if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 226, in _check_db_version
    return repo._check_db_version(mdtype)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1226, in _check_db_version
    repoXML = self.repoXML
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1399, in <lambda>
    repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1395, in _getRepoXML
    raise Errors.RepoError, msg
yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: centos-5-os-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again

If I start a sync, no new packages are being sync'd, that said it still
dies with the same error.

If I point it to my own repo, it goes on and doesn't try to sync
anything new.  So it would appear my own copy is somewhat corrupted but
I don't really know where to look...
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Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer                         mathieu-acct at csetco.com
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