This bug has been copied from bug #734492 and has been proposed to be backported to 5.7 z-stream (EUS).
Sending yum-rhn-plugin-5.7.z/yum-rhn-plugin.spec Transmitting file data . Committed revision 206252.
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: Cause: A bug in yum-rhn-plugin code. Consequence: Package Manager would ask the user to re-register the system every time Package Manager is ran. Fix: More careful command line arguments checking by yum-rhn-plugin. Result: Package Manager now correctly recognizes a registered system.
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1,7 +1 @@ -Cause: A bug in yum-rhn-plugin code. +Due to an error in the option parsing algorithm, the Package Manager incorrectly prompted the user to register the system with Red Hat Network every time it was started. With this update, the relevant part of the source code has been corrected, and the Package Manager no longer prompts users to register already registered systems.- -Consequence: Package Manager would ask the user to re-register the system every time Package Manager is ran. - -Fix: More careful command line arguments checking by yum-rhn-plugin. - -Result: Package Manager now correctly recognizes a registered system.
Changing to Verified: Testing procedure: - pup tool does not require registration when machine already registered - the pup tool is able to refresh/fetch repository metadata - user is able to apply updates using the pup tool - desktop applet (puplet) pops-up, when the updates are available Verified against: yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4-22.el5_7.2 rhn-client-tools-0.4.20-56.el5 pirut-1.3.28-19.el5
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/RHBA-2011-1281.html