Bug 1679208

Summary:	Unable to install katello-host-tools or katello-agent package on RHEL8
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	Nagoor Shaik <nshaik>
Component:	Packaging	Assignee:	satellite6-bugs <satellite6-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Lukas Pramuk <lpramuk>
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Version:	6.5.0	CC:	egolov
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Description Nagoor Shaik 2019-02-20 15:31:06 UTC

Description of problem:
Unable to install katello-host-tools or katello-agent package on RHEL8

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Satellite 6.5 snap 15

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Register RHEL8 beta system to Satellit 6.5
2. Try installing katello-agent or katello-host-tools which fails with the following error

[root@rhel8 ~]# yum install katello-host-tools -y
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Red Hat Satellite 6.5 Tools for RHEL7                                                                                         148 kB/s | 2.5 kB     00:00    
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream HTB (RPMs)                                                                  130 kB/s | 2.5 kB     00:00    
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS HTB (RPMs)                                                                     145 kB/s | 2.8 kB     00:00    
Error: 
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides /usr/bin/python needed by katello-host-tools-3.4.2-1.el7sat.noarch
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

[root@rhel8 ~]# yum install katello-agent -y
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Red Hat Satellite 6.5 Tools for RHEL7                                                                                         138 kB/s | 2.5 kB     00:00    
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream HTB (RPMs)                                                                  127 kB/s | 2.5 kB     00:00    
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS HTB (RPMs)                                                                     148 kB/s | 2.8 kB     00:00    
Error: 
 Problem: package katello-agent-3.4.2-1.el7sat.noarch requires katello-host-tools = 3.4.2-1.el7sat, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - nothing provides /usr/bin/python needed by katello-host-tools-3.4.2-1.el7sat.noarch
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)


Actual results:
Unable to install katello-agent or katello-host-tools packages

Expected results:
expect to be installed without issue

Additional info: