Why doesn't reposync work for me?

CLOSE Dave Dave.Close at us.thalesgroup.com
Tue Nov 4 22:41:42 UTC 2014


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.
-- 
Dave Close


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