Why doesn't reposync work for me?

[James Antill]

On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 17:40 -0700, CLOSE Dave 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.