That first command produces the following error, some of which look pretty important to
the functioning of oVirt.
[root@phys1 dwhite]# rpm -e --justdb centos-stream-releaseerror: Failed
dependencies:centos-release >= 7-5.1804.el7.centos.2 is needed by (installed)
centos-release-storage-common-0:2-2.el8.noarchcentos-release >= 8-0.1905.el8 is needed
by (installed) centos-release-ceph-pacific-1.0-2.el8.noarchcentos-release >= 8.1 is
needed by (installed) centos-release-gluster10-1.0-1.el8s.noarchcentos-release is needed
by (installed) centos-release-virt-common-0:1-2.el8.noarchcentos-release is needed by
(installed) centos-release-opstools-1-12.el8.noarchcentos-release is needed by (installed)
centos-release-nfv-common-1-3.el8.noarchcentos-release is needed by (installed)
centos-release-ovirt45-8.6-5.el8s.noarch
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------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 7:08 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> Il giorno gio 12 mag 2022 alle ore 12:34 David White via Users
<users(a)ovirt.org> ha scritto:
> > Hello,I followed some instructions I found in
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/upgrade_guide/ and
https://www.ovirt.org/download/install_on_rhel.html by doing the following:
> > 883 subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms884
subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms885
subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms886 rpm -i
--justdb --nodeps --force "http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/$(rpm
--eval '%_arch')/os/Packages/centos-stream-release-8.6-1.el8.noarch.rpm"887
cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Extras.repo <<'EOF'888
[cs8-extras]889 name=CentOS Stream $releasever - Extras890
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream&arch=$basea...
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/8-stream/extras/$basearch/os/892
gpgcheck=1893 enabled=1894
gpgkey=https://www.centos.org/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Official895 EOF896 cat
>/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Extras-common.repo <<'EOF'897
[cs8-extras-common]898 name=CentOS Stream $releasever - Extras common packages899
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream&arch=$basea...
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/8-stream/extras/$basearch/extras-common/901
gpgcheck=1902 enabled=1903
gpgkey=https://www.centos.org/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Extras904 EOF905 echo
"8-stream" > /etc/yum/vars/stream906 dnf distro-sync --nobest907 reboot908
dnf install centos-release-ovirt45909 dnf install centos-release-ovirt45
--enablerepo=extras
>
> > But now, yum update isn't working because its trying to install
centos-stream-release 8.6.1 over redhat-release-8.6.
> > Surely I shouldn't install CentOS stream release over RHEL release, should
I?
> > See below:
> > [root@phys1 dwhite]# cat /etc/redhat-releaseRed Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.5
(Ootpa)[root@phys1 dwhite]# yum updateUpdating Subscription Management repositories.Last
metadata expiration check: 0:02:01 ago on Thu 12 May 2022 05:59:38 AM EDT.Error:Problem:
installed package centos-stream-release-8.6-1.el8.noarch obsoletes redhat-release < 9
provided by redhat-release-8.6-0.1.el8.x86_64- cannot install the best update candidate
for package redhat-release-8.5-0.8.el8.x86_64- problem with installed package
centos-stream-release-8.6-1.el8.noarch(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip
uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
> you can:
> rpm -e --justdb centos-stream-releasednf update redhat-release -yrpm -i --justdb
--nodeps --force "http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/$(rpm --eval
'%_arch')/os/Packages/centos-stream-release-8.6-1.el8.noarch.rpm"
> Alma, Rocky and others are providing centos-release in their own release rpm so this
step is not needed there.
>
>
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