With system registered to the Satellite just to consume RHEL content and no other repositories (repofiles) present in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ dir the yum makecache call fails with Unknown repo: 'rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms'

[2024-08-02T11:48:10+0000] DEBUG - Calling command 'yum makecache --releasever=9.4 --setopt=*.skip_if_unavailable=False --setopt=module_platform_id=platform:el9 --disablerepo=* --enablerepo rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms --enablerepo rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms'
ERROR - (ERROR) ENSURE_KERNEL_MODULES_COMPATIBILITY::PROBLEM_WITH_PACKAGE_REPO - Could not download package metadata
 Description: There was an error retrieving the package metadata to verify kernel modules are available in RHEL.
 Diagnosis: We were unable to download the repository metadata for (rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms, rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms) to determine packages containing kernel modules.  Can be caused by not enough disk space in /var/cache or too little memory.  The yum output below may have a clue for what went wrong in this case:

Updating Subscription Management repositories.

Error: Unknown repo: 'rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms'

Reproducer

• register the system to the Satellite to consume only RHEL content
• remove all repofiles
• run convert2rhel --debug

Minimal reproducer outside of the utility

• register the system to the Satellite to consume only RHEL content
• remove all repofiles
• remove the respective <system>-release package
• rpm -e --nodeps almalinux-release
• run yum makecache trying to enable either of RHEL repositories
• yum makecache --releasever=9.4 --setopt=*.skip_if_unavailable=False --setopt=module_platform_id=platform:el9 --disablerepo=* --enablerepo rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms --enablerepo rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms

The issue is with the <system>-release package taking ownership of both /etc/yum.repos.d/ dir as whole and /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo
Removing the release package causes the whole dir to be erased, which prohibits subscription-manager to refresh the redhat.repo file.
Therefore no repository definition can be found to be enabled.

LOGS https://artifacts.osci.redhat.com/testing-farm/efd3b665-555e-4d90-a6ad-c0fa0715b9fb/work-non-destructiveao5xkn1r/plans/tier0/core/non-destructive/execute/data/guest/default-0/tests/integration/tier0/non-destructive/system-release-backup/os_release_restored/override_inhibitor_os_release_restored-32/output.txt