Goal

• A subscription-manager user can expect the package profile to include package persistence information.

Acceptance criteria

A list of verification conditions, successful functional tests, or expected outcomes in order to declare this story/task successfully completed.

• subscription-manager is able to take package persistence information from libdnf via https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-104149 and send it in the package profile.

Context:

 
With https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-30671 , Satellite will be required to track which packages on an image mode host are installed transiently.

"Transient" is one of the new dnf persistence options that goes along with the --transient flag, which enables installing RPMs are image mode machines without first enabling the bootc usr-overlay.

This RFE requests that the persistence be added to the subscription-manager package profile. For example:

# Edited portion of a cached package profile
{
  "rpm": [
    {
      "name": "subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates",
      "version": "20220623",
      "release": "1.el9",
      "arch": "noarch",
      "epoch": 0,
      "vendor": "Red Hat, Inc.",
      "persistence": "transient" <===========
    },
    {
      "name": "hwdata",
      "version": "0.348",
      "release": "9.15.el9",
      "arch": "noarch",
      "epoch": 0,
      "vendor": "Red Hat, Inc.",
      "persistence": "transient" <===========
    },

Data from subscription-manager is the best source of truth for Satellite. Otherwise, package persistence would need to be inferred.