Subscription-manager on OEL9

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Hi all

We are migrating some servers from OEL7 to OEL9. I’ve been using the COPR repository for subscription-manage, which - after disabling rhn- works well for EL7 and EL8.

Unfortunately for EL9, I have tried installing it and keep getting the python dependency error below

  • nothing provides python(abi) = 3.6 needed by subscription-manager-1.29.31-1.el8.x86_64 from Foreman-EL8
    (try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages or ‘–nobest’ to use not only best candidate packages)

Would also like to use a new Foreman repository (if there is one) for EL9.

Can anyone help?

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info from one of our EL8 machines:

dependency: python(abi) = 3.6
provider: platform-python-3.6.8-56.0.1.el8_9.i686
provider: platform-python-3.6.8-56.0.1.el8_9.x86_64

this comes from the EL8 base repo.

Installed Packages
Name : platform-python
Version : 3.6.8
Release : 56.0.1.el8_9
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 40 k
Source : python3-3.6.8-56.0.1.el8_9.src.rpm

Is there a way to get this dependency on EL9 so I can install subsciption-manager

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Can’t you just take an EL9 build of subscription-manager from, e.g. CentOS 9 Stream?

That will have the “right” Python deps.

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good shout. I’ve just taken that repo url and got it working. Added below and it grabs what it needs

baseurl = Index of /9-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os

5

any idea on getting katello-host-tools and host-tools-tracer on EL9? These are from the Foreman EL8 repo we have and also complains about the same missing python(abi) dep

6

Have you tried our normal client repos?

https://yum.theforeman.org/client/3.8/el9/x86_64/

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perfect, thank you