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On 7.5 I was able to resolve this by
1. Installing grub2-common by itself
2. Then trying to install fwupdate-efi by itself
This then seems to have cleared the blocker for me. Try this out? :)
I attempted the work around. was able to install the grub2-common by itself but not the fwupdate-efi. so, currently I am still stuck and unable to update any security patches.
Restating the issue:
This will not affect RHEL 7.6 fresh installs as that will come with the updated grub2-common. fwupdate-efi conflicts with all versions of grub2-common below grub2-common-2.02-0.76.el7.noarch currently.
# rpm -q grub2-common
grub2-common-2.02-0.65.el7_4.2.noarch
# yum groupinstall "Server with GUI"
Transaction check error:
file /boot/efi/EFI/redhat from install of fwupdate-efi-12-5.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package grub2-common-1:2.02-0.65.el7_4.2.noarch
# yum install fwupdate-efi
Transaction check error:
file /boot/efi/EFI/redhat from install of fwupdate-efi-12-5.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package grub2-common-1:2.02-0.65.el7_4.2.noarch
*** Updating grub2-common will workaround this issue allowing customers to install Server with GUI or fwupdate-efi as required ***
# yum update grub2-common
# rpm -q grub2-common
grub2-common-2.02-0.76.el7.noarch
# yum install fwupdate-efi