Bug 649435

Verified.

(Followed procedure from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626737#c8).

Server: Satellite 5.4 
Client: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.0 (Santiago) x86_64

On client: 
1. Register into Satellite with base channel rhel-x86_64-server-6.
2. Add into your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date lines with 'stagingContent=1' and 'stagingContentWindow=24'.
3. Make sure RHN Daemon is not running: service rhnsd stop
  - It prevents rhnsd to download package from server behind our backs.
4. Disable all your yum repos in /etc/yum.repos.d/ (or move them somewhere else). Necessary to ensure that installation of a package will use Satellite software channel, not yum repository.

On server: 
1. Enable staging content support for your org.: Admin -> Organization -> choose one -> Configuration -> Enable staging content.
2. Schedule package installation for client machine in time now()+10mins (package 'aide' in our case).
(Systems -> pick one -> Software -> Packages -> Install).
3. Immediately after it in client's terminal run 'rhn_check -vv'. The output should look like this:
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# rpm -q aide
package aide is not installed
# ll /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6Server/rhel-x86_64-server-6/packages/
total 0
# rhn_check -vv
D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',) {}
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
D: login(forceUpdate=False) invoked
D: readCachedLogin invoked
D: Checking pickled loginInfo, currentTime= 1291648229.12 , createTime= 1291648115.86 , expire-offset= 3600.0
D: readCachedLogin(): using pickled loginInfo set to expire at  1291651715.86
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC up2date.listChannels
D: Called refresh_rpmlist
Updating package profile
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.update_packages
D: local action status:  (0, 'rpmlist refreshed', {})
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message
D: handle_action {'action': "<?xml version='1.0'?>\n<methodCall>\n<methodName>packages.update</methodName>\n<params>\n<param>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><string>aide</string></value>\n<value><string>0.14</string></value>\n<value><string>3.el6</string></value>\n<value><string></string></value>\n<value><string>x86_64</string></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</param>\n</params>\n</methodCall>\n", 'version': 2, 'id': 1427}
D: handle_action actionid = 1427, version = 2
D: do_call packages.update ([['aide', '0.14', '3.el6', '', 'x86_64']],) {'cache_only': 1}
D: Called update [['aide', '0.14', '3.el6', '', 'x86_64']]
D: Dependencies Resolved
D: Downloading Packages:
D: Just pre-caching packages, skipping package install
# ll /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6Server/rhel-x86_64-server-6/packages/
total 124
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 126144 Sep 13 20:49 aide-0.14-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -q aide
package aide is not installed
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Notice lines "D: do_call packages.update ([['aide', '0.14', '3.el6', '', 'x86_64']],) {'cache_only': 1}"
and
"D: Just pre-caching packages, skipping package install".
You see that package 'aide' is only downloaded into yum cache directory, but not installed.

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These packages have been updated to support the Red Hat Network Satellite Server Maintenance Window, allowing a user to download scheduled packages and errata before the start of the maintenance window.

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2010-0949.html