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Created attachment 1610774[details]
Patch
Description of problem:
On the RHEL 7 systems, the grub2-tools rpm provides (and obsoletes) the grub2-tools-efi capability on all architectures. Regarding the discussion we had with jhlavac, this seems to be wrong as EFI isn't provided on non-intel architectures (correct me if I am wrong). Because of this provides, we are not able to calculate upgrade RPM transaction to RHEL 8, because the capability is not provided anymore on RHEL 8 systems for non-intel architectures.
Actual results:
grub2-tools provides grub2-tools-efi on non-intel architectures
Expected results:
grub2-tools provide grub2-tools-efi only on intel architectures
Additional info:
Possible patch in the attachement. I found in th arch even the %{efi_arch} macro but it's used only once and everywhere else the x86_64 arch is used for similar purposes.
We need the fix released in RHEL ALT 7.6 - in this case it means z-stream.
grub2-tools-2.02-0.81.el7 no longer provides grub2-tools-efi on non-x86_64 architectures (ppc64 and ppc64le), x86_64 still provides grub2-tools-efi as requested.
There was no regression found during upgrade testing (from RHEL-7.7 to the latest 7.8).
Moving this bug to VERIFIED.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.
For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.
If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:1161
Created attachment 1610774 [details] Patch Description of problem: On the RHEL 7 systems, the grub2-tools rpm provides (and obsoletes) the grub2-tools-efi capability on all architectures. Regarding the discussion we had with jhlavac, this seems to be wrong as EFI isn't provided on non-intel architectures (correct me if I am wrong). Because of this provides, we are not able to calculate upgrade RPM transaction to RHEL 8, because the capability is not provided anymore on RHEL 8 systems for non-intel architectures. Actual results: grub2-tools provides grub2-tools-efi on non-intel architectures Expected results: grub2-tools provide grub2-tools-efi only on intel architectures Additional info: Possible patch in the attachement. I found in th arch even the %{efi_arch} macro but it's used only once and everywhere else the x86_64 arch is used for similar purposes. We need the fix released in RHEL ALT 7.6 - in this case it means z-stream.