Red Hat Satellite hosts running yum display the message: "Error: requested datatype primary not available"
Issue
When running yum on a host attached to a Red Hat Satellite or Capsule, yum returns the following error:
Error: requested datatype primary not available
Yum fails to run and the package count for the affect repository is zero.
Environment
Red Hat Satellite 6
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