Issued:
2024-12-03
Updated:
2024-12-03

RHBA-2024:10757 - leapp-repository bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

leapp-repository bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory None

Topic

An update for leapp-repository is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.

Description

The leapp-repository packages provide modules for the Leapp utility.

The possible in-place upgrade paths currently are:

  • From RHEL 7.9 to RHEL 8.8 and RHEL 8.10 on the 64-bit Intel, IBM POWER 8 (little endian), and IBM Z architectures.

  • From RHEL 7.9 to RHEL 8.8 and RHEL 8.10 on systems with SAP HANA. To ensure your system with SAP HANA remains supported after upgrading to RHEL 8, enable the RHEL 8.8 (or 8.10) Update Services for SAP Solutions (E4S) repositories.

See Supported in-place upgrade paths for Red Hat Enterprise Linux linked from the References section.

For detailed instructions on performing an in-place upgrade, see Upgrading from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 linked from the References section.

Notable bug fixes and enhancements include:

  • Ensure the util-linux RPM is installed in target userspace container

  • Fix detection of bootable partition

  • Handle default kernel cmdline when multiple boot entries for the default kernel are defined

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • leapp-upgrade-el7toel8-0.20.0-13.el7_9.noarch.rpm
  • leapp-repository-0.20.0-13.el7_9.src.rpm
  • leapp-upgrade-el7toel8-deps-0.20.0-13.el7_9.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

Additional information