advanced-virt-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms are no longer required in OSP 16.2

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Environment

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2

Issue

What happened to advanced-virt-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms and advanced-virt-for-rhel-8-x86_64-eus-rpms in OSP 16.2?

Resolution

The advanced-virt-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms and advanced-virt-for-rhel-8-x86_64-eus-rpms repos have been removed from the documentation as required repos for the Undercloud and the Overcloud. Before performing an update from 16.1 to 16.2, those repos should be disabled on Overcloud nodes and the Undercloud, if present. Also, the virt module needs to be reset: 

subscription-manager repos --disable advanced-virt-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
subscription-manager repos --disable advanced-virt-for-rhel-8-x86_64-eus-rpms
dnf module disable -y virt:8.2
dnf module enable -y virt:rhel
dnf distro-sync

Root Cause

The presence of these repos is not required in version 16.2. If they are present then there may be issues when performing an upgrade from 16.1 to 16.2. See
This content is not included.Bug 2027787 - Undercloud upgrade to 16.2 fails because of missing dependencies of swtpm.

Diagnostic Steps

yum repolist | grep advanced-virt

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