Appendix A. RHEL 8 repositories

Before the upgrade, ensure you have appropriate repositories enabled as described in step 4 of the procedure in Preparing a RHEL 8 system for the upgrade.

If you plan to use Red Hat Subscription Manager during the upgrade, you must enable the following repositories before the upgrade by using the subscription-manager repos --enable repository_id command:

Table A.1. RHEL 8 repositories

ArchitectureRepositoryRepository ID

64-bit Intel and AMD

Base

rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms

AppStream

rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms

64-bit ARM

Base

rhel-8-for-aarch64-baseos-rpms

Extras

rhel-8-for-aarch64-appstream-rpms

IBM POWER (little endian)

Base

rhel-8-for-ppc64le-baseos-rpms

AppStream

rhel-8-for-ppc64le-appstream-rpms

IBM Z

Base

rhel-8-for-s390x-baseos-rpms

AppStream

rhel-8-for-s390x-appstream-rpms

You can enable the following repositories before the upgrade by using the subscription-manager repos --enable repository_id command:

Table A.2. Voluntary RHEL 8 repositories

ArchitectureRepositoryRepository ID

64-bit Intel and AMD

Code Ready Linux Builder

codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

Supplementary

rhel-8-for-x86_64-supplementary-rpms

64-bit ARM

Code Ready Linux Builder

codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-aarch64-rpms

Supplementary

rhel-8-for-aarch64-supplementary-rpms

IBM POWER (little endian)

Code Ready Linux Builder

codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-ppc64le-rpms

Supplementary

rhel-8-for-ppc64le-supplementary-rpms

IBM Z

Code Ready Linux Builder

codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-s390x-rpms

Supplementary

rhel-8-for-s390x-supplementary-rpms

Note

If you have enabled a RHEL 8 Code Ready Linux Builder or a RHEL 8 Supplementary repository before an in-place upgrade, Leapp enables the RHEL 8 CodeReady Linux Builder or the RHEL 8 Supplementary repositories, respectively. For more information, see the Package manifest.

If you decide to use custom repositories, enable them per instructions in Configuring custom repositories.