Downgrade of linux-firmware (before RHEL-10) or nvidia-gpu-firmware (in RHEL-10) fails.
Issue
-
On RHEL8, downgrade of
linux-firmware
from versions equal or higher tolinux-firmware-20250626-131.gitb05fabcd.el8_10
to a lower versioned package fails -
On RHEL9 beta, downgrade of
linux-firmware
from versions equal or higher tolinux-firmware-20250604-153.el9
to a lower versioned package fails -
On RHEL9.6, downgrade of
linux-firmware
from versions equal or higher tolinux-firmware-20250604-151.2.el9_6
to a lower versioned package fails -
On RHEL10 beta, downgrade of
nvidia-gpu-firmware
from versions equal or higher tonvidia-gpu-firmware-20250521-16.el10
to a lower versioned package fails -
On RHEL10.0, downgrade of
nvidia-gpu-firmware
from versions equal or higher tonvidia-gpu-firmware-20250521-15.4.el10_0
to a lower versioned package fails
The error messages are file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103/gsp ... conflicts with file ...
.
The conflicting paths are /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103
, /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104
, /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106
and /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107
.
Environment
-
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9
- linux-firmware
-
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- nvidia-gpu-firmware
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