[Spacewalk-list] Oracle Linux 6 repo not fully synched?

[Michael Mraka]

Coffman, Anthony J wrote:
% I'm starting to sync Oracle Linux for the first time and I noticed this happening
% 
% Sync started: Wed Mar 13 16:05:44 2013
% ['/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync', '--channel', 'ol6_latest', '--type', 'yum']
% Repo URL: http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/x86_64/
% Packages in repo:             20868
% Packages already synced:          0
% Packages to sync:             16519
% 1/16519 : tk-devel-8.5.7-5.el6-1.x86_64
% 2/16519 : tk-devel-8.5.7-5.el6-1.i686
% 3/16519 : totem-upnp-2.28.6-2.el6-0.x86_64
% 
% <SNIP 16000+ packages syncing)
% 
% 16518/16519 : kernel-devel-2.6.32-358.2.1.el6-0.x86_64
% 16519/16519 : kernel-doc-2.6.32-358.2.1.el6-0.noarch
% Linking packages to channel.
% Repo http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/x86_64/ has comps file comps.xml.
% Repo http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/x86_64/ has 1148 errata.
% Sync completed.
% Total time: 9:39:22
% 
% I don't understand the discrepancy between the 20868 packages that are available in the Oracle repo but only 16519 are selected to sync.
%
% I found that Daniel Schindler had also mentioned this in a tangentially related bugzilla from a few months ago
% https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860860
% 
% I'm digging through the source now to try to understand this but I haven't found any obvious filtering going on.
% 
% Cany anbody shed some light on this?

IMHO it's 4349 src.rpm packages which spacewalk doesn't sync.

% Regards,
% --Tony

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat