How to set a specific release version on Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI) running on Red Hat Cloud Partners providers?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Red Hat Update Infrastructure at AWS
  • Red Hat Update Infrastructure at Azure

Issue

  • How to set a specific RHEL release version on Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI) running on Red Hat Cloud Partners providers?
  • How to set RHEL minor releases on Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI) running at AWS/Azure?
  • How to lock Pay-As-You-Go AWS VMs to a specific RHEL version?

  • When setting an RHEL minor release on a system registered to the RHUI at AWS, the error below is displayed:

    # yum --releasever=7.2 update
Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb, search-disabled-repos
https://cds.example.com/pulp/repos//content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7.2/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.

Resolution

  • On RHEL7, Enforce the releasever on the client by executing the command below:

    # echo 7.2 > /etc/yum/vars/releasever

  • On RHEL8, RHEL9 the file path is /etc/dnf/vars/releasever

  • Once it is set, then check if the repository is available to your client:

    # yum clean all
# yum repolist -v

  • For RHEL 8, only minor versions 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 8.8, 8.9, and 8.10 are available for AWS RHUI. These minor releases are available to facilitate Leapp upgrade from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8.

  • For RHEL 9, only minor versions 9.0, 9.2, and later minor versions are available for AWS RHUI. These minor releases are available to facilitate Leapp upgrade from RHEL 8 to RHEL 9.

  • EUS minor version repositories are also available on AWS RHUI for hourly Pay-As-You-Go instances. More information on using EUS repositories with AWS RHUI can be found here.

  • If you still hit the 404 error, please contact the Red Hat Support team.

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