Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2023:5097 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2023-09-12
Updated:
2023-09-12

RHEA-2023:5097 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis

convert2rhel bug fix and 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(s):

  • Don't unregister the system by default (RHELC-1033)
  • Deprecate the --keep-rhsm option (RHELC-1036)
  • Implement a lock file to prevent multiple convert2rhels running at the same time (RHELC-1099)
  • Write a schema for the json return data and use it to integration test the output (RHELC-1107)
  • Update CLI to introduce new subcommands for pre conversion analysis (RHELC-970)
  • Output the pre-assessment report to a json formatted file (RHELC-975)
  • Examine messages logged by Actions and port messages that make sense to be returned from the Action (RHELC-976)
  • Expand pre-conversion report message attributes (RHELC-1094)
  • Allow a pre-conversion report action to report multiple messages (RHELC-1042)
  • Standardize timestamp to ISO format with timezones (RHELC-1000)

Bug Fix(es):

  • Oracle Linux 7: Fix lsmod not being found (RHELC-1056)

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

  • RHELC-1000 - Standardize timestamp to ISO format with timezones
  • RHELC-1033 - Stop unregistering the system by default
  • RHELC-1036 - Deprecate the --keep-rhsm option and stop uninstalling subscription-mananager
  • RHELC-1042 - Allow a pre-conversion report action to report multiple messages
  • RHELC-1056 - Oracle Linux 7: Fix lsmod not being found
  • RHELC-1094 - Expand pre-conversion report message attributes
  • RHELC-1099 - Prevent simultaneous instances of convert2rhel on a single system
  • RHELC-1107 - Write a schema for the json return data and use it to integration test the output
  • RHELC-975 - Report the pre-conversion analysis in a JSON file
  • RHELC-976 - Get consistent log messages to be returned from Actions

CVEs

(none)

Convert2RHEL 7

SRPM
convert2rhel-1.4.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 6cc308535b8467c3a9559a07e8b8750f810cd08fe17dbcb0f6665748af1b735a
x86_64
convert2rhel-1.4.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6c6e574ff9b9a07d539547da5ff591f3b3c2356fa2ea171e9b0e8985884031f8

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