Repository sync for EPEL7 fails with error "compressed file ended before the logical end-of-stream was detected" for Satellite 5.6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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Issue

  • spacewalk-repo-sync for EPEL7 fails with below compression error for Red Hat Satellite 5.6 on RHEL 5
# spacewalk-repo-sync --channel epel-7 -u http://mirror.utexas.edu/epel/7/x86_64/
Repo URL: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64
ERROR: compressed file ended before the logical end-of-stream was detected
Sync completed.
Total time: 0:00:05

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
  • EPEL 7

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