Description of problem:

Spacewalk renders kickstart files with a %post script which attempts to upgrade some core components. If the kickstart is found to be RHEL 5 (also CentOS 5) the script attempts an upgrade of yum-rhn-plugin, yum, and pirut by fetching the latest version of the package available with wget and attempting an rpm -F. (freshen)

In the case of RHEL 5.0 kickstarts, this attempts to grab the latest RHEL 5.2 versions of these packages which are now coming with different dependencies. Not only will we need to continue adding new dependencies as RHEL progresses, but now yum required new packages completely as dependencies which will not be installed when attempting an rpm freshen. We could change this to an upgrade/install, but we're already counting on *not* installing packages that weren't installed before. (i.e. pirut)

In short, this is an unsustainable approach, we cannot do yum's job, without yum, in a kickstart post script.

NOTE: This issue has limited relevance to Spacewalk, just creating this ticket to track the removal of these lines which attempt to upgrade yum.


How reproducible:

Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a RHEL 5 or CentOS 5 kickstart profile.
2. View kickstart file contents in the UI.
  
Actual results:

Note the wget of yum-rhn-plugin, yum, pirut, etc.

Expected results:

We should not attempt to manually upgrade packages in kickstart post.