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Bug 1837756 - osinfo-db is out of date
Summary: osinfo-db is out of date
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: osinfo-db
Version: 8.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: Fabiano Fidêncio
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-19 22:10 UTC by Dylan Stephano-Shachter
Modified: 2023-03-20 11:16 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: osinfo-db-20200529-1.el8
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Last Closed: 2020-11-04 03:39:07 UTC
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Description Dylan Stephano-Shachter 2020-05-19 22:10:04 UTC 
Description of problem:
The version of osinfo-db that ships in rhel 8 is rather old. This makes it difficult to use rhel as a hypervisor in a production environment as it does not have the proper information to run, for example, fedora32 hosts.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
osinfo-db-20190611-1.el8.noarch

Additional info:
I would be willing to help maintain an up to date version of this package if someone points me in the direction of how to do that.
Comment 1 Fabiano Fidêncio 2020-05-19 22:27:00 UTC 
Dylan,

Due to RHEL processes it's almost impossible to keep the db up-to-date as we wish.

However, a non-supported way to work this around would be using osinfo-db-tools and importing the latest releases from upstream.
Mind, tho, this would be a non-supported way.
Comment 3 Dylan Stephano-Shachter 2020-05-20 17:44:26 UTC 
Fabiano,

That is rather unfortunate but I definitely believe it. I'm just curious, what would Red Hat say if you wanted to install Fedora 32 on a RHEL host? Is this just not supported?
Comment 4 Fabiano Fidêncio 2020-05-20 17:56:01 UTC 
(In reply to Dylan Stephano-Shachter from comment #3)
> Fabiano,
> 
> That is rather unfortunate but I definitely believe it. I'm just curious,
> what would Red Hat say if you wanted to install Fedora 32 on a RHEL host? Is
> this just not supported?

What's actually blocking you to install Fedora 32 on RHEL host? This is the bit that I don't understand.

As I pointed out, there are ways admins can use newer osinfo-db, using it through osinfo-db-tools is one way.
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 03:39:07 UTC 
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 (libosinfo bug fix and enhancement update), 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-2020:4758
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