Bug 1034842

Hi,

During the initial registration to spacewalk, if a package is specified in "Activation Key -> Packages" for the key used and already installed on the system at an older release, rhnreg_ks won't trigger an upgrade of the package to the latest release. This used to work in the past.

For example:
- package foo 1.0-1 on the player
- latest release on the spacewalk channels is foo 1.1-1
- the activation key X-BAR-MYKEY contains "foo" in "Activation Key -> Packages".
- rhnreg_ks --activationkey X-BAR-MYKEY on the player
- we expect foo to be upgraded to 1.1-1, but it's still 1.0-1.

This was working in Spacewalk/yum-rhn-plugin 1.2 (e.g., fc14 systems), but doesn't work anymore in e.g. Spacewalk/yum-rhn-plugin 1.9 (e.g., fc17 and fc18 systems).

The regression is apparently caused by commit ea84c915032450b540b1dd47c8062a6cfc4c3d11 <https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spacewalk.git/commit/client/rhel/yum-rhn-plugin?id=ea84c915032450b540b1dd47c8062a6cfc4c3d11>. I couldn't find any bug referencing that commit, nor does its commit message reference any bug report.

I rebuilt yum-rhn-plugin 1.9.4 locally, reverting the above commit, and the registration behaves as expected/previously (foo is upgraded to 1.1-1).
I couldn't find any "new" bug during my (limited) testing with this patched package.

Could this behavior be reintroduced somehow?
This would be rather useful to force an upgrade of a known broken/outdated package during registration (like what happened with one version of rhnsd having an incomplete systemd service file (Missing Type=forking) on fc17, causing rhnsd to not start on some systems).

Thanks!