ContentView dependency resolving

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Hello all, I’ve got a question about the dependency solving and applying filters on a CV.
I recently run into an issue on a RockyLinux8 Host which uses a CV called RockyLinux8NoKernelPackages with the below filter applied to the baseos repo only.

RPM name Architecture Version
kernel* x86_64 Greater than version 4.18.0-372.9.1.el8

When I attempt to update packages like e.g. gcc and gcc-plugin-annovin on the host assigned to the CV above it refuses to update them. This seems to be related to dependency resolving turned off on the CV cause when I do enable it it works as expected. The problem being is that with dependency resolving enabled the filters I’ve got are being ignored. So I’m wondering how I could approach this problem best?

[localhost yum.repos.d] dnf list gcc gcc-plugin-annobin
Installed Packages
gcc.x86_64                        8.5.0-18.el8       @Mirror-RockyLinux8-Appstream
gcc-plugin-annobin.x86_64         8.5.0-18.el8       @Mirror-RockyLinux8-Appstream
Available Packages
gcc.x86_64                        8.5.0-20.el8       RockyLinux8_RockyLinux8AppStream
gcc-plugin-annobin.x86_64         8.5.0-20.el8       RockyLinux8_RockyLinux8AppStream

[localhost yum.repos.d] dnf update gcc gcc-plugin-annobin
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
RockyLinux8AppStream                         73 kB/s | 2.6 kB     00:00
RockyLinux8BaseOS                            80 kB/s | 2.3 kB     00:00
RockyLinux8Epel                              74 kB/s | 2.3 kB     00:00
RockyLinux8PowerTools                        70 kB/s | 2.6 kB     00:00
RockyLinux8Extras                            43 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00
Error:
 Problem: cannot install both gcc-8.5.0-20.el8.x86_64 and gcc-8.5.0-18.el8.x86_64
  - package gcc-plugin-annobin-8.5.0-18.el8.x86_64 requires gcc = 8.5.0-18.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package gcc-8.5.0-18.el8.x86_64
  - problem with installed package gcc-plugin-annobin-8.5.0-18.el8.x86_64
(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)

Foreman and Proxy versions:
foreman: 3.8.0

Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:
foreman-tasks 8.2.0
foreman_puppet 6.0.1
foreman_remote_execution 11.0.0
katello 4.10.0

Distribution and version:
Rocky Linux release 8.8 (Green Obsidian)

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Can we see the filters you have on the content view?

With dependency solving on, what package(s) are installed? We need to make sure the filter does not filter out those packages.

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I’m very sorry but this post can be archived/closed. I totally forgot that this host specifically had the dnf versionlock plugin installed which prevent the package from being installed. I should have checked for it before posting.

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