Description of problem:
up2date fails to install packages requested on the command line

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
up2date-4.4.69-25

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. up2date ethereal
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Actual results:
The following packages you requested are already updated:
ethereal

Expected results:
package downloads and installs

Additional info:
[root@galaxy ~]# up2date ethereal 

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-as-4...
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Fetching rpm headers...
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Name                                    Version        Rel     
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ethereal                                0.99.0         EL4.2             x86_64


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
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The following packages you requested are already updated:
ethereal
[root@galaxy ~]# rpm -q ethereal
package ethereal is not installed

The same thing happens on an i386 server (both running AS 4U4), and for
ethereal-gnome on both architectures.