Hello,

 This patch give more detailed explanation for reposync --arch usage.

 Cheers,
Marcelo Moreira de Mello

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From: Marcelo Moreira de Mello <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:05:50 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] BZ#732593 - Detailed usage for --arch option

---
 docs/reposync.1 |    6 +++++-
 reposync.py     |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/reposync.1 b/docs/reposync.1
index c1bc818..edc05cc 100644
--- a/docs/reposync.1
+++ b/docs/reposync.1
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Display a help message, and then quit.
 Config file to use (defaults to /etc/yum.conf).
 .IP "\fB\-a ARCH, \-\-arch=ARCH\fP"
 Act as if running the specified arch (default: current arch, note: does
-not override $releasever).
+not override $releasever. x86_64 is a superset for i*86.).
 .IP "\fB\-\-source\fP"
 Also download .src.rpm files.
 .IP "\fB\-r REPOID, \-\-repoid=REPOID\fP"
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ Path to download packages to: defaults to current directory.
 Remove packages that fail GPG signature checking after downloading.
 .IP "\fB\-u, \-\-urls\fP"
 Just list urls of what would be downloaded, don't download.
+.IP "\fB\-l, \-\-plugins\fP"
+Enable yum plugin support.
 .IP "\fB\-n, \-\-newest-only\fP"
 Download only newest packages per-repo.
 .IP "\fB\-q, \-\-quiet\fP"
@@ -41,6 +43,8 @@ Output as little information as possible.
 \fB reposync --repoid=updates --repoid=extras\fP
 .IP "Sync all packages from the 'updates' repo to the \fBrepos\fP directory:"
 \fB reposync -p repos --repoid=updates\fP
+.IP "Sync all packages from the 'updates' repo to the \fBrepos\fP directory 
excluding x86_64 arch. Edit \fI/etc/yum.conf\fR adding option 
\fBexclude=*.x86_64\fR. Then: 
+\fBreposync -p repos --repoid=updates\fP
 .SH "FILES"
 \fBreposync\fP uses the yum libraries for retrieving information and
 packages. If no configuration file is specified, the default yum
diff --git a/reposync.py b/reposync.py
index 6aa49cc..aadb072 100755
--- a/reposync.py
+++ b/reposync.py
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ def parseArgs():
     parser.add_option("-c", "--config", default='/etc/yum.conf',
         help='config file to use (defaults to /etc/yum.conf)')
     parser.add_option("-a", "--arch", default=None,
-        help='act as if running the specified arch (default: current arch, 
note: does not override $releasever)')
+        help='act as if running the specified arch. (default: current arch, 
note: does not override $releasever. x86_64 is a superset for i*86.)')
     parser.add_option("--source", default=False, dest="source", 
action="store_true",
                       help='operate on source packages')
     parser.add_option("-r", "--repoid", default=[], action='append',
-- 
1.7.6

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