On 2014-11-06 05:56, James Antill wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 14:41 -0800, CLOSE Dave wrote:
>> James Antill wrote:
>>
>>>> I've been running reposync hourly for the last several months, mostly
>>>> because the corporate firewall blocks rsync. My local repo has quite a
>>>> few packages but nowhere near all that it should have. I'm wondering why
>>>> not.
>>>>
>>>> The machine running reposync has x86_64 architecture but the repo I'm
>>>> trying to fill is for i386 machines. (I'm also running reposync for
>>>> x86_64 and that seems to be working fine.) Here's the command sequence
>>>> I'm running.
>>>>
>>>> # /usr/bin/reposync -n -a i386 -r updates -p /data/yum-mirrors/i386
>>
>>> -a should be the highest arch, so you want at least i686.
>>
>> I've tried that. It appears to me that the -a argument identifies the
>> repository to be accessed. When I tried i686, nothing was found because
>> I don't have a .repo file for that. Note that fedoraproject.org doesn't
>> list any mirrors for i686, only for i386.
>
> The only thing the -a (or --arch) option does is affect this line:
>
> arches = rpmUtils.arch.getArchList(opts.arch)
>
> ...which tells yum which arches are to use for packages:
>
> In [2]: rpmUtils.arch.getArchList('i386')
> Out[2]: ['i386', 'noarch']
>
> In [3]: rpmUtils.arch.getArchList('i686')
> Out[3]: ['i686', 'i586', 'i486', 'i386', 'noarch']
>
> ...note that this doesn't set arch/basearch, in fact AFAICS there is no
> way to set basearch for reposync via. an option.
Which brings back memories :-), nice to see I'm not the only one...:
http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum-devel/2014-May/010622.html
/Anders
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