Description of problem: Customer's concern is that they have been using below set of commands for monthly patching of their Satellite servers since many months but all of a sudden they got below error while running first mentioned command:

1. satellite-maintain packages update -y --whitelist="packages-update-all-confirmation"

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ERROR: Unrecognised option '--whitelist' // He never got this error earlier.
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1. satellite-maintain upgrade run --target-version 6.9.z -y

The reason why they were using the above set of commands [i.e, splitting the packages update and upgrade run] because it reduced the downtime as the second command stops all services before updating the packages. With this approach they used to reduce the downtime from ~20 min to ~10 min,

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

• Red Hat Satellite 6.9

How reproducible: Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Run the below command on satellite server to update the packages:

1. satellite-maintain packages update -y --whitelist="packages-update-all-confirmation"

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ERROR: Unrecognised option '--whitelist'
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As per the code as the switches available, it is throwing the right error but as per customer, it used to work him for earlier versions:

1. satellite-maintain packages update --help

Usage:
satellite-maintain packages update [OPTIONS] [PACKAGES] ...

Parameters:
[PACKAGES] ... packages to update

Options:
-y, --assumeyes Automatically answer yes for all questions
-h, --help print help

Actual results: Customer is getting error that '--whitelist' option is Unrecognised.

Expected results: Customer should be able to run below command without error:

1. satellite-maintain packages update -y --whitelist="packages-update-all-confirmation"