Unable to downgrade the 'linux-firmware' package due to a file conflict error.
Issue
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While trying to downgrade linux-firmware to
linux-firmware-20250513-151.1.el9_6.noarch
, downgrade fails with below error message:# yum downgrade linux-firmware Updating Subscription Management repositories. Last metadata expiration check: 0:18:20 ago on Tuesday 09 September 2025 11:37:54 AM. Dependencies resolved. ========================================================================================================= Package Architecture Version Repository Size ========================================================================================================= Downgrading: linux-firmware noarch 20250513-151.1.el9_6 rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 478 MTransaction Summary ========================================================================================================= Downgrade 1 PackageTotal download size: 478 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: linux-firmware-20250513-151.1.el9_6.noarch.rpm 81 MB/s | 478 MB 00:05 Total 81 MB/s | 478 MB 00:05 Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction. You can remove cached packages by executing 'yum clean packages'. Error: Transaction test error: file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103/gsp from install of linux-firmware-20250513-151.1.el9_6.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250604-151.2.el9_6.noarch file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104/gsp from install of linux-firmware-20250513-151.1.el9_6.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250604-151.2.el9_6.noarch file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106/gsp from install of linux-firmware-20250513-151.1.el9_6.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250604-151.2.el9_6.noarch file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107/gsp from install of linux-firmware-20250513-151.1.el9_6.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250604-151.2.el9_6.noarch file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 from install of linux-firmware-20250513-151.1.el9_6.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250604-151.2.el9_6.noarch file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104 from install of linux-firmware-20250513-151.1.el9_6.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250604-151.2.el9_6.noarch file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106 from install of linux-firmware-20250513-151.1.el9_6.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250604-151.2.el9_6.noarch file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107 from install of linux-firmware-20250513-151.1.el9_6.noarch conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250604-151.2.el9_6.noarch file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103/gsp conflicts between attempted installs of linux-firmware-20250513-151.1.el9_6.noarch and linux-firmware-20250513-151.1.el9_6.noarch
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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