[Spacewalk-list] reposync and rhnpush]

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:

> Ok, as far as I can tell, there's a bug in reposync.
>
> When I use the call straight, and give it -a x86_64, it completely ignores the flag, and overrides it with the current archetecture (32-bit, in this case).
>
> I've copied the CentOS-Base.repo from /etc/yum.repos.d. I've tried:
>   a) commenting out the mirrorlist, and uncommenting the
>       baseurl, as it says in the original.
>   b) replacing $releasever and &arch with literals - in
>       this case, 5.2 and x86_64

Yep.  Rather than replacing just a repo file, I replace the whole yum.conf,
and hardcode the architecture and release.

Works fine for me,

jh

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