Bug 837785

Summary:	rhn_register or bootstrap.sh should perform a 'yum clean' before re-registering a system
Product:	Red Hat Satellite 5	Reporter:	riotintoti <michael.ferguson>
Component:	Registration	Assignee:	Michael Mráka <mmraka>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version:	541	CC:	cperry
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Description riotintoti 2012-07-05 09:11:15 UTC

Description of problem:

We've had an issue when re-registering a system, where new or updated packages in the newly subscribed channels won't install because they're not in the local yum metadata, even after registration.

A 'yum clean' or similar should be added to the bootstrap.sh script or rhn_register process so that yum metadata is rebuilt and updated/new packages in newly subscribed channels are made available to the system.

Comment 1 Clifford Perry 2013-04-04 15:57:18 UTC

This can be done by customer by manually editing the bootstrap script that they use. 

This type of issue of doing a yum clean to force download of new meta-data is independent of registrations. 

I don't see us implementing this globally for all customers. 

Closing deferred. 

Cliff