On Red Hat Satellite 6 Package upload to a repository using hammer command is failing with "pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR: PackageMetadataError" error ?

Issue

• Package upload to Red Hat Satellite 6 is failing with the below error message:

# hammer repository upload-content --id 2455 --path /root/PyPAM-0.5.0-12.el6.x86_64.rpm
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Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: celery.worker.strategy:INFO: Received task: pulp.server.async.tasks._reserve_resource[b44f0d61-8750-4245-922e-6d4744db5462]
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: celery.worker.job:INFO: Task pulp.server.async.tasks._reserve_resource[b44f0d61-8750-4245-922e-6d4744db5462] succeeded in 0.0390880312771s: u'reserved_resource_worker-0@Satellite6.example.com
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: celery.worker.strategy:INFO: Received task: pulp.server.managers.content.upload.import_uploaded_unit[524577f0-abe1-43bf-94ac-23b70508ae3d]
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: celery.worker.strategy:INFO: Received task: pulp.server.async.tasks._queue_release_resource[fc11128e-fdc6-4263-b28e-bc98382ae5e1]
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR: Error extracting RPM metadata for [/var/lib/pulp/uploads/6b4ac399-9877-479d-be85-f94ce5dc7771]
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR:   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pulp_rpm/plugins/importers/yum/upload.py", line 233, in _handle_package
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR:     new_unit_key, new_unit_metadata = _generate_rpm_data(file_path, metadata)
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR:   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pulp_rpm/plugins/importers/yum/upload.py", line 327, in _generate_rpm_data
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR:     headers = ts.hdrFromFdno(fd)
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR:   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rpm/transaction.py", line 154, in hdrFromFdno
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR:     raise rpm.error("error reading package header")
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR: error: error reading package header
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR: metadata for the given package could not be extracted
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR:   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pulp_rpm/plugins/importers/yum/upload.py", line 85, in upload
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR:     handlers[type_id](type_id, unit_key, metadata, file_path, conduit, config)
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR:   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pulp_rpm/plugins/importers/yum/upload.py", line 236, in _handle_package
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR:     raise PackageMetadataError()
Feb 27 17:10:39 Satellite6 pulp: pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.upload:ERROR: PackageMetadataError