RHV Manager upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2 fails due to package conflict

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Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.1

Issue

  • Red Hat Virtualization Manager upgrade fails while upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2 with ERROR:

    Error: rhvm-setup-plugins conflicts with ovirt-engine-4.1.8.2-0.1.el7.noarch

Resolution

  1. Upgrade to the latest minor Red Hat Virtualization Manager version 4.1.x and then upgrade to Red Hat Virtualization Manager version 4.2.
  2. Disable 4.2 repositories and re-enable 4.1 repositories. Do the minor upgrade and run engine-setup.
  3. Once the environment is upgraded to the latest available 4.1.x, then enable 4.2 repositories and upgrade to 4.2.

Root Cause

  • Red Hat Virtualization Manager should be upgraded to the latest minor release before upgrading to the next version release.

Diagnostic Steps

yum update ovirt*setup\*
--> Running transaction check
---> Package python-linecache2.noarch 0:1.0.0-1.el7ost will be installed
--> Processing Conflict: rhvm-setup-plugins-4.2.9-1.el7ev.noarch conflicts ovirt-engine < 4.1.10
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: rhvm-setup-plugins conflicts with ovirt-engine-4.1.8.2-0.1.el7.noarch
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

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