Does this script work to convert RedHat 8 to Oracle Linux 8 ?
ehb54 opened this issue · 2 comments
i have had good success converting several CentOS 8 systems to Oracle Linux.
Now I have some systems with RedHat 8 that also need conversion.
Has anyone tried with this script?
It is not designed for that, but it might work, if you remove all the rhsm related packages first.
The official switch process is documented here: https://linux.oracle.com/switch.html
Thanks @Djelibeybi.
The official switch process seems to refer a RH subscription->OL subscription, so it wasn't what we wanted. After converting 2 systems from RH to OL8 leveraging the centos2ol.sh script, I can say it is possible to do. Someone with greater expertise could probably come up with a simpler method.
My observations:
The centos2ol.sh script will fail but seemed good to get started.
After it fails, I had to run
wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-ol8 -O /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
dnf remove libreport
dnf update
yum distro-sync
Not sure if I needed to do the dnf update before yum distro-sync or that dnf update could be skipped.
Then I created a modified version of the centos2ol.sh script which just included the steps after the yum distro-sync & ran that (again, not sure if this was needed).
Then duplicated the contents of /etc/yum.repos.d from a working OL8 system and ran
the following steps:
echo > /etc//yum/vars/ociregion
echo oracle.com > /etc/yum/vars/ocidomain
dnf update
rpm --erase $( rpm -qa | egrep 'subscription-manager|rhn|redhat-support|redhat-access' )
rm /etc/motd.d/insights-client
dnf install kernel-uek
dnf update (repeat until “nothing to do”)
reboot
This is what worked for me... but I'm not recommending it.
This has only been tested on 2 systems with identical original configurations.
I also had to ( as in #8 )
dnf module reset llvm-toolset:ol8
dnf module install llvm-toolset:ol8
dnf module reset virt
dnf module install virt