[Spacewalk-list] How To force Spacewalk to redownload all pacakage in a repo?

[Michael Mraka]

Thomas Schweikle:
> Hi!
> 
> I've created a channel, added a repository, then started to sync this
> newly created channel. Worked so far, but: only 15 packages are
> synced. The repository holds 125!
> 
> Now I have tried to download missing packages using
> 
> # /usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync -c ol6-i386-winswitch -t yum
> 15:24:28 ======================================
> 15:24:28 | Channel: ol6-i386-winswitch
> 15:24:28 ======================================
> 15:24:28 Sync of channel started.
> 15:24:28 Repo URL: https://winswitch.org/dists/CentOS/6/i386/
> 15:24:29 Packages in repo:               125
> 15:24:29 No new packages to sync.
> 15:24:29 Repo https://winswitch.org/dists/CentOS/6/i386/ has 0 errata.
> 15:24:30 Sync of channel completed in 0:00:02.
> 15:24:30 Total time: 0:00:02
> 
> But without success. Any idea how I could force spacewalk to sync all
> available packages from upspream repo?

Hello Thomas,

Which packages has been synced? Do they somehow differ from packages
which has not been synced?
If they are e.g. only noarch packages, the changes are your channel has
spacified different architecture than i386/x86_64.
 
Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat