Bug 626737

changes cherrypicked from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626739#c9

applied to yum-rhn-plugin as rev. 197281

applied to rhn-client-tools as rev. 197283

forgot to cherrypick one commit:

svn commit -m '626737 - packages for update should be cached
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> cherrypicked from spacewalk.git commit 95702f6afae9e791badd3bef48f34a5fb937ce4d'
Sending        yum-rhn-plugin/actions/packages.py
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 197501.

Verified.

Procedure:

Server: Satellite 5.4
Client: RHEL5.6 (registered with base channel rhel-x86_64-server-5)

On client in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date you have to have stagingContent=1, you can optionally specify stagingContentWindow=24, which will say look ahead of 24 hours.
On server Admin -> Organization -> choose one -> Configuration -> Enable staging content.

1. First thing you need to do on client is to disable all your yum repos in /etc/yum.repos.d/ (or move it somewhere else). This is necessary to ensure that installation of a package will use the software channel from Satellite, not some RHEL repository.
2. Register client into Satellite.
3. In Sat. WebUI schedule a package install for client in time now()+10mins (package 'adaptx' in our case).
4. Immediately after it run on client 'rhn_check -vv'. The output should look like this:
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[root@cisco-b200m1-01 etc]# rhn_check -vv
D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',) {}
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
D: login(forceUpdate=False) invoked
D: readCachedLogin invoked
D: Checking pickled loginInfo, currentTime= 1289903758.28 , createTime= 1289903037.48 , expire-offset= 3600.0
D: readCachedLogin(): using pickled loginInfo set to expire at  1289906637.48
D: local action status:  (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update (or package list recently updated)', {})
D: handle_action {'action': "<?xml version='1.0'?>\n<methodCall>\n<methodName>packages.update</methodName>\n<params>\n<param>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><string>adaptx</string></value>\n<value><string>0.9.13</string></value>\n<value><string>3jpp.1</string></value>\n<value><string>0</string></value>\n<value><string>x86_64</string></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</param>\n</params>\n</methodCall>\n", 'version': 2, 'id': 2318}
D: handle_action actionid = 2318, version = 2
D: do_call packages.update ([['adaptx', '0.9.13', '3jpp.1', '0', 'x86_64']],) {'cache_only': 1}
D: Called update [['adaptx', '0.9.13', '3jpp.1', '0', 'x86_64']]
D: Dependencies Resolved
D: Downloading Packages:
D: Just pre-caching packages, skipping package install
[root@cisco-b200m1-01 etc]# ll /var/cache/yum/rhel-x86_64-server-5/packages/
total 748
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 754664 Mar  9  2007 adaptx-0.9.13-3jpp.1.x86_64.rpm
[root@cisco-b200m1-01 etc]# rpm -q adaptx
package adaptx is not installed
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Notice the line "D: do_call packages.update ([['adaptx', '0.9.13', '3jpp.1', '0', 'x86_64']],) {'cache_only': 1}".
You see that package 'adaptx' was only downloaded into yum cache directory, but was not installed.

5. Wait till the specified scheduled time (which was now()+10mins) and run 'rhn_check -vv' again. Now it won't download the package again, instead it will install it from yum cache directly:
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[root@cisco-b200m1-01 etc]# rhn_check -vv
D: check_action {'action': "<?xml version='1.0'?>\n<methodCall>\n<methodName>packages.update</methodName>\n<params>\n<param>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><string>adaptx</string></value>\n<value><string>0.9.13</string></value>\n<value><string>3jpp.1</string></value>\n<value><string>0</string></value>\n<value><string>x86_64</string></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</param>\n</params>\n</methodCall>\n", 'version': 2, 'id': 2318}
updateLoginInfo() login info
D: login(forceUpdate=True) invoked
logging into up2date server
D: writeCachedLogin() invoked
D: Wrote pickled loginInfo at  1289904186.84  with expiration of  1289907786.84  seconds.
successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server
D: logininfo: {'X-RHN-Server-Id': 1000010354, 'X-RHN-Auth-Server-Time': '1289902102.21', 'X-RHN-Auth': 'Se2bGgwWr5zAZjhRc/gTbw==', 'X-RHN-Auth-Channels': [['rhel-x86_64-server-5', '20101111120208', '1', '1']], 'X-RHN-Auth-User-Id': '', 'X-RHN-Auth-Expire-Offset': '3600.0'}
D: handle_action {'action': "<?xml version='1.0'?>\n<methodCall>\n<methodName>packages.update</methodName>\n<params>\n<param>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><string>adaptx</string></value>\n<value><string>0.9.13</string></value>\n<value><string>3jpp.1</string></value>\n<value><string>0</string></value>\n<value><string>x86_64</string></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</param>\n</params>\n</methodCall>\n", 'version': 2, 'id': 2318}
D: handle_action actionid = 2318, version = 2
D: do_call packages.update ([['adaptx', '0.9.13', '3jpp.1', '0', 'x86_64']],) {'cache_only': None}
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
D: Called update [['adaptx', '0.9.13', '3jpp.1', '0', 'x86_64']]
D: Dependencies Resolved
D: Downloading Packages:
D: Running Transaction Test
D: Finished Transaction Test
D: Transaction Test Succeeded
D: Running Transaction
Updating package profile
D: Sending back response (0, 'Update Succeeded', {})
D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',) {}
D: Called refresh_rpmlist
Updating package profile
D: local action status:  (0, 'rpmlist refreshed', {})
[root@cisco-b200m1-01 etc]# rpm -q adaptx
adaptx-0.9.13-3jpp.1
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The rhn-client-tools package has been updated to support the Red Hat Network Satellite Server Maintenance Window.

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0112.html