Reposync man page inaccuracies in RHEL 6 and RHEL 7

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Issue

Several articles mention the -l flag that can be passed to reposync, but the man page doesn't seem to mention this flag. However, since reposync is a Python script, one can see several undocumented flags that the script will take:

("-l", "--plugins", default=False, action="store_true",
        help="enable yum plugin support")
("-m", "--downloadcomps", default=False, action="store_true",
        help="also download comps.xml")
("-e", "--cachedir",
        help="directory in which to store metadata")
("-d", "--delete", default=False, action="store_true",
        help="delete local packages no longer present in repository")
("--norepopath", dest='norepopath', default=False, action="store_true",
        help="Don't add the reponame to the download path. Can only be used when syncing a single repository (default is to add the reponame)")

RHEL 7 documentation includes the -l option, but is lacking options -e, -d, -m, and --norepopath.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

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