Cobbler does not substitute the architecture for $basearch in the wget generated as part of the reposysnc command.  Below is an excerpt from the task log

 

Mon Apr 30 07:56:51 2012 - DEBUG | received on stderr:

Mon Apr 30 07:56:51 2012 - INFO | running: /usr/bin/wget -q http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch/repodata/repomd.xml -O /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/extras/.origin/repomd.xml

 

 

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