RHEA-2024:10919 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for convert2rhel is now available for supported conversions of Alma Linux, Oracle Linux, and Rocky Linux 9 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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)
• Enable checking for EL9 convert2rhel latest version (JIRA:RHELC-1598)
• 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• Change out-of-date packages overridable inhibitor to a warning (JIRA:RHELC-1578)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):

• Handle failing duplicate package check on EL9 (JIRA:RHELC-1675)
• Fix DNF transaction failing with a rocky-logos conflict on Rocky Linux 9 (JIRA:RHELC-1602)
• Always check accessibility of --enablerepo repositories (JIRA:RHELC-1747)
• Fix missing /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory on EL9 (JIRA:RHELC-1677)
• Make the initramfs validity check more robust (JIRA:RHELC-1711)
• Make exit codes consistent when inhibitors found (JIRA:RHELC-1736)
• Fix the latest RHEL kernel not set as default on CentOS Stream 9 (JIRA:RHELC-1717)
• Don't update RHSM facts with subscription-manager not present (JIRA:RHELC-1728)
• GRUB2 config file generation fails on EL9 UEFI (JIRA:RHELC-1780)

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 9 x86_64

Fixes

• RHELC-1602 - DNF transaction fails with rocky-logos conflict on Rocky Linux 9.4
• 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-1598 - Add CDN repofile for EL9 for Convert2RHEL Latest check
• RHELC-1601 - Misconfigured grub file causes the conversion to fail
• RHELC-1675 - Return code 1 not handled when checking for duplicate packages on RHEL9 like systems
• RHELC-1677 - yum makecache fails on Alma and Rocky 9
• RHELC-1711 - Handle failing initramfs validity check
• RHELC-1717 - Older kernel set as default on CentOS Stream 9
• RHELC-1728 - RHSM facts attempted to be collected too early
• RHELC-1736 - Exiting with different exit codes when inhibitor found
• RHELC-1747 - Use enabled repos for custom repositories check
• RHELC-1780 - GRUB2 config file generation fails on EL9 UEFI

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/converting_from_an_rpm-based_linux_distribution_to_rhel/index
• https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/convert2rhel-support