RHEL9 update fails with Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: systemd

Issue

• dnf update / dnf update systemd fails with one of the following errors:

[rhel-9-6-196 ~]# dnf update
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)                                                                                                                                                          25 MB/s |  86 MB     00:03    
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs)                                                                                                                                                       21 MB/s |  72 MB     00:03    
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:12 ago on Tue 04 Nov 2025 11:15:57 AM CET.
Error: 
 Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: systemd
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

[rhel-9-6-196 ~]# dnf update systemd
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:37 ago on Tue 04 Nov 2025 11:32:20 AM CET.
Error: 
 Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package systemd-252-51.el9.x86_64
  - nothing provides systemd-rpm-macros = 252-51.el9_6.3 needed by systemd-252-51.el9_6.3.x86_64 from rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)