Leapp upgrade from RHEL 8.10 to RHEL 9.4/9.6 fails due to linux-firmware package version conflict

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Issue

  • Leapp Upgrade from RHEL 8.10 to RHEL 9.4 fails due to linux-firmware package conflict.

    Error: Transaction test error:
    file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103/gsp from install of linux-firmware-20240905-143.3.el9_4.noarch conflicts with file from package   linux-firmware-20250626-131.gitb05fabcd.el8_10.noarch
    file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104/gsp from install of linux-firmware-20240905-143.3.el9_4.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250626-131.gitb05fabcd.el8_10.noarch
    file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106/gsp from install of linux-firmware-20240905-143.3.el9_4.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250626-131.gitb05fabcd.el8_10.noarch
    file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107/gsp from install of linux-firmware-20240905-143.3.el9_4.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250626-131.gitb05fabcd.el8_10.noarch
    file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 from install of linux-firmware-20240905-143.3.el9_4.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250626-131.gitb05fabcd.el8_10.noarch
    file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104 from install of linux-firmware-20240905-143.3.el9_4.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250626-131.gitb05fabcd.el8_10.noarch
    file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106 from install of linux-firmware-20240905-143.3.el9_4.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250626-131.gitb05fabcd.el8_10.noarch
    file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107 from install of linux-firmware-20240905-143.3.el9_4.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250626-131.gitb05fabcd.el8_10.noarch
    file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103/gsp conflicts between attempted installs of linux-firmware-20240905-143.3.el9_4.noarch and linux-firmware-20240905-143.3.el9_4.noarch
    
  • Leapp Upgrade from RHEL 8.10 to RHEL 9.6 using an ISO image fails with similar error
  • Leapp Upgrade from RHEL 9.6.z to RHEL 10.0 fails with similar error

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 (ISO)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6.z
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0
  • Leapp
  • linux-firmware-20250626-131.gitb05fabcd.el8_10.noarch

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