Error Installing Packages on RHOCP 4.18 Cluster for RHEL 8 Compute Nodes

Issue

• An error occurs when attempting to add an RHEL 8 Compute Node to an RHOCP 4.18 cluster.
• The Ansible log indicates that packages such as cri-tools, crun, openshift-kubelet-4.18*, podman, netavark, runc, skopeo, containernetworking-plugins, and others cannot be installed.
• The error message mentions conflicting dependencies between runc and cri-o:

Depsolve Error occurred: Problem: package cri-o-1.31.6-2.rhaos4.18.gitda737c9.el8.x86_64 requires runc >= 1.0.0-61.rc8, but none of the providers can be installed

• The dnf repository list shows that some packages are available for RHEL 8 in RHOCP 4.17 but not in RHOCP 4.18.
• The rhocp-4.18-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms channel only includes 12 packages, while the rhocp-4.18-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms channel has more packages available.
• Error messages include:
  • No match for argument: openshift-kubelet-4.18*
  • Unable to find a match: openshift-kubelet-4.18*
  • Unable to install conmon,cri-o-1.31.6,cri-tools,crun,openshift-clients-4.18*,openshift-kubelet-4.18*,podman,netavark,runc,..... Please ensure repos are configured properly to provide these packages and indicated versions.