It seems the rsync upgrade procedure from 6 to 7 fails now:
Feb 27 11:36:43 intra esmith::event[26169]: WARNING in /etc/e-smith/templates//etc/yum/vars/nsrelease/50output: Use of uninitialized value $esmith::__TEMPLATE__::4::release in string at /etc/e-smith/templates//etc/yum/vars/nsrelease/50output line 1.