Description of problem: There were couple of packages decommissioned in past Satellite releases that persist in the system even after the upgrade. With Satellite 5.3.0 many packages were renamed and some of the renamed packages do not provide packages that they obsolete (reason: they are not backward compatible) -- for example np-config & NPusers are being obsoleted (but not provided) by nocpulse-common. Presence of these packages may cause problems when doing upgrades (package upgrade part). Satellite installer (install.pl) needs to remove these packages from system before it starts with the actual package upgrade. List of decommissioned packages that need to be removed: * LongLegs * Time-System * bdb_perl * aspectwerkz * attrib4j * ehcache * FcntlLock * perl-Mail-Alias * saxpath * scdb_accessor_perl * tsdb_accessor_perl * perl-Business-CreditCard * perl-Class-Factory-Util * perl-Crypt-CAST5_PP * perl-Crypt-Rijndael Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Satellite 5.3.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Satellite 3.7.1 on RHEL-4 2. Upgrade it all the way to some of the recent 5.3.0 snapshots 3. Check that none of the packages listed above is present Actual results: N/A Expected results: N/A Additional info: Satellite installer (install.pl) should ask the user if one wishes to have these packages (or at least those from the list present in the system) removed and print a warning message in case the answer is no.
This has always been like that, so making it a Future Feature. Hopefully it will get approved for a release in the near future.
We have not addressed this specific bug in over 5 years years. This does not seem to have an active customer case with the bug report either. Closing out as wontfix to clear from backlog. Please re-open if you disagree and wish further review. Cliff