Why does spacewalk-clone-by-date fail with RHEL3/RHEL4 channels ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • spacewalk-clone-by-date fails for RHEL3 and RHEL4 channels with error:
spacewalk-clone-by-date --username=***** --password=***** --channels=rhel-i386-as-4 clone-rhel-i386-as-4 --to_date=2013-10-10
Reading repository information.

Unable to read repository information.
Please verify repodata has been generated in /var/cache/rhn/repodata/rhel-i386-as-4.

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.5

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