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The satellite-sync command includes an ability to forcibly process all Errata Metadata: --force-all-errata. This is useful if an errata should be shown as applicable to a system but is not.
There are multiple ways of running this command. The two most common ways are running the command for all channels, or simply for a specific channel. Please note that, depending upon how many channels are synced on the satellite, running the command for all channels will take longer.
For a single channel, here is an example command:

satellite-sync -c rhel-i386-server-5 --force-all-errata

This would forcibly reprocess all errata metadata for the channel 'rhel-i386-server-5'. Replace that value with whichever channel you wish to reprocess.
For all channels, here is the command:

satellite-sync --force-all-errata

This will reprocess all errata metadata for all channels on the satellite.
When either command finishes a completion message will follow:

09:39:12 Importing *relevant* errata: rhel-i386-server-5 (306)
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Downloading:######################################## - complete
09:39:33 Importing kickstartable trees (2)
09:39:33 Imported kickstartable trees (2)
        Import complete:
                Begin time: Sat Apr 26 09:35:43 2008
                End time: Sat Apr 26 09:39:33 2008
                Elapsed: 0 hours, 3 minutes, 50 seconds