Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2021:3834 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2021-10-13
Updated:
2021-10-13

RHEA-2021:3834 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis

convert2rhel enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

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Topic

An update for convert2rhel is now available for supported conversions of
CentOS Linux and Oracle Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The convert2rhel package provides the Convert2RHEL utility, which performs
operating system conversion. During the conversion process, Convert2RHEL
replaces all RPM packages from the original Linux distribution with their
RHEL version.

Enhancement:

  • The convert2rhel package now allows converting UEFI-based systems.

(BZ#1898314)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Convert2RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1898314 - Converting a UEFI install drops to grub> prompt, or fails to boot.

CVEs

(none)

Convert2RHEL 7

SRPM
convert2rhel-0.24-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 2002ceb42598e507d4fb7e0a6a124e3d35afa836db2484b77e75ed60d2ff4395
x86_64
convert2rhel-0.24-2.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 9bb20b96b9263ba0d01746cc9db589ca379993e8f30e890a9d038a899e2648e7

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