Foreman 3.9/Katello 4.11 upgrade issues

Support
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Problem:

RPM installs fails, it appears that it might be a conflict with ansible packages installed - ansible 2.9.27.
We are actively using ansible 2.9.27 and do not have access to ansible automation platform currently so an ansible-core >2.10 installation would have to be via a pip install and would not appear as an RPM.

Is there a workaround to be able to upgrade Foreman/Katello and leave existing ansible version in place?

The selinux-policy errors might be unrelated.

# dnf update
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:19:16 ago on Thu 08 Aug 2024 13:18:41 BST.
Error:
Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package candlepin-selinux-4.3.1-1.el8.noarch

  • nothing provides selinux-policy >= 3.14.3-128.el8_9.1 needed by candlepin-selinux-4.3.12-1.el8.noarch
  • nothing provides selinux-policy-base >= 3.14.3-128.el8_9.1 needed by candlepin-selinux-4.3.12-1.el8.noarch
    Problem 2: cannot install the best update candidate for package foreman-selinux-3.8.0-1.el8.noarch
  • nothing provides selinux-policy >= 3.14.3-128.el8_9.1 needed by foreman-selinux-3.9.3-1.el8.noarch
    Problem 3: cannot install the best update candidate for package pulpcore-selinux-2.0.0-1.el8.x86_64
  • nothing provides selinux-policy >= 3.14.3-128.el8_9.1 needed by pulpcore-selinux-2.0.1-1.el8.x86_64
    Problem 4: package ansible-test-2.14.2-4.el8_8.x86_64 requires ansible-core = 2.14.2-4.el8_8, but none of the providers can be installed
  • package ansible-core-2.14.2-4.el8_8.x86_64 conflicts with ansible < 2.10.0 provided by ansible-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch
  • cannot install the best update candidate for package ansible-test-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch
  • cannot install the best update candidate for package ansible-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch
    (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:
Installed Packages
foreman.noarch 3.8.0-1.el8
katello.noarch 4.10.0-1.el8

Distribution and version:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.8

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Foreman/Katello will always default to the latest release of EL, you need 8.10 bits, using 8.8 will not work when you try to upgrade the packages for Katello.

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Thanks for your input, I will have to postpone the upgrades until we upgrade RHEL OS to 8.10 :slight_smile: