+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #249376 +++

Description of problem:

The bug 247156 deals with the problem that group operations do not work with
yum. It is due to the lack of comps*.xml information in the satellite-sync
protocol, which means that the table rhnChannelComps does not get popupated. For
the bug 247156, we've decided that we will hardcode the most common RHEL 5
mappings of channel labels to comps*.xml files.

I have filed bug 249141 against hosted, to include the comps information in the
channel dumps / satellite-sync protocol. Once the hosted is fixed, we need to
process that information on the Satellite side.

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

Satellite 5.0.0

How reproducible:

Deterministic.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run satellite-sync -c rhel-i386-client-5.
2. Check the content of the table rhnChannelComps.
  
Actual results:

Observe that there is no record in rhnChannelComps for this channel.

Expected results:

Table rhnChannelComps should get populated.

Additional info:

Since we are going to fix bug 247156 by a workaround in the code, yum
groupupdate is not a good indicator of whether this bug was or was not fixed.
OTOH, if you comment out the workaround changes brought by bug 247156, you
should still see yum groupupdate work.

--- Additional comment from pkilambi on 2009-02-24 17:47:58 EST ---

Update:

ok from initial investigation, Hosted is  actually not sending down any comps info from rhnChannelComps. All it tell us is whether the channel has_comps or not as a boolean. So I need to manually construct the info and insert it into our satellite db (at the sync time of course). bug#249141 isnt actually doing much for satellite looks like.

~ Prad