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Repo Sync to non-current CentOS release

WARNING:  This might actually screw up your Spacewalk system :-(  I think the correct path would be to sync 6.3 first, then 6.4, etc...

Feel free to attempt it though.

I'm attempting to build out a FOSS (emphasis on FREE ;-) replica of my RHEL environment at work in my home.  Seems simple enough.  One significant difference is how Satellite varies from Spacewalk in initial sync.

My goal is to use spacewalk-clone-by-date to show how you can utilize "rolling" channel release dates and use the clone to bring the channel up to a date that you would like all your hosts patched "current" to.  The problem is: I built my spacewalk server in November of 2013 and the only release it seems to have grabbed is 6.4.  So, any arbitrary date I select, simply defaults back to 6.4 as that is all I have.

So - I don't want to get terribly in-depth, but I decided I can conclude my testing if I had two minor-release versions - 6.4 and 6.3.

My spacewalk repo for "base" or "centos6-x86_64" points to http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os (as it should).

CentOS 6.3 release 2012-07-09
CentOS 6.4 release 2013-03-09

So - to populate my Spacewalk Repo with the previous version, I ran
spacewalk-repo-sync --type=yum --url='http://vault.centos.org/6.3/os/x86_64' --channel='centos6-x86_64'

spacewalk-repo-sync --type=yum --url='http://vault.centos.org/6.3/extras/x86_64/' --channel='centos6-x86_64-extras'

spacewalk-repo-sync --type=yum --url='http://vault.centos.org/6.3/updates/x86_64/' --channel='centos6-x86_64-updates'


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