Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2024:10905 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2024-12-10
Updated:
2024-12-10

RHEA-2024:10905 - 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):

  • Port environment variables to a config file (JIRA:RHELC-1507)
  • Add a pre-conversion check for an invalid grub file (JIRA:RHELC-1601)
  • Add a deprecation notice about environment variables (JIRA:RHELC-1508)
  • Advise users to back up their system (JIRA:RHELC-1169)
  • Change out-of-date packages overridable inhibitor to a warning (JIRA:RHELC-1578)

Bug Fix(es):

  • Always check accessibility of --enablerepo repositories (JIRA:RHELC-1747)
  • Make the initramfs validity check more robust (JIRA:RHELC-1711)
  • Make exit codes consistent when inhibitors found (JIRA:RHELC-1736)
  • Don't update RHSM facts with subscription-manager not present (JIRA:RHELC-1728)
  • Handle yum failing on trying to reach inaccessible --enablerepo repositories (JIRA:RHELC-1753)

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-1728 - RHSM facts attempted to be collected too early
  • RHELC-1169 - Users to confirm they have made a system backup
  • RHELC-1507 - CONVERT2RHEL_* env vars are settable in the /etc/convert2rhel.ini
  • RHELC-1508 - Warn that using env vars is deprecated
  • RHELC-1578 - Make up-to-date package check into WARNING instead of an ERROR
  • RHELC-1601 - Misconfigured grub file causes the conversion to fail
  • RHELC-1711 - Handle failing initramfs validity check
  • RHELC-1736 - Exiting with different exit codes when inhibitor found
  • RHELC-1747 - Use enabled repos for custom repositories check
  • RHELC-1753 - Regression: Enabled custom repositories check unreachable on EL7

CVEs

(none)

Convert2RHEL 7

SRPM
convert2rhel-2.2.0-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: b9916302c7387b8d38b57fe80a39b1e5b625bc4164ab6f88608462176bc56816
x86_64
convert2rhel-2.2.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 18c13c4f3196c447e754e37e0886d96dda86e72fe0b4f43f6d872aa0ac37904e

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