Description of problem:

$summary with the intent being that hts clean would net the same environment as
an "rpm -i hts" on a system that never had hts installed before.

Additional info:

The purpose for this; is that zSeries has encounted a couple of problem in what
I would of considered an unexpected use case; however it sounds powerful and
useful if we can implement it.  What's happening is that system images can be
moved around from zSeries to zSeries; so instead of re-installing all over again
to end up with the same RHEL5; the simply shut it down; move it and bring it
back up on the new system and retest.  Some of the side effects have been
getting bad data in hts plan and getting multiple rpm's even though it looked
clear from thier point of view.  Our uses could be for this virt problem; if we
should ship a preloaded xen image that would make the virt test that much
simpler and again the same image would be moved from system to system.