Syncing xz compressed repos to Red Hat Satellite 5 throws the error `xz compression not available`

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Issue

  • When trying to sync a xz repo to Red Hat Satellite 5.x, spacewalk-repo-sync throws the error below:
# spacewalk-repo-sync -c fedora-21 -u https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/21/x86_64/os/
...
ERROR: xz compression not available

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite 5.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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