This has been reported in users mailing list by Federico Fiordoliva - INAF. I can confirm efi related packages are missing within 4.4.9.1 and 4.4.9.2 ISOs and ovirt-host has been downgraded from 4.4.9-2 to 4.4.8-1. I checked the build logs and apparently no error has been reported by the build system. It indeed seems like either a proxy or something else is reporting older versions of ovirt-host to dnf installer. It also doesn't detect to be on x86_64 architecture so it misses to require efi support. We need additional automated tests on oVirt Node using UEFI instead og legacy BIOS.
This bug report has Keywords: Regression or TestBlocker. Since no regressions or test blockers are allowed between releases, it is also being identified as a blocker for this release. Please resolve ASAP.
# dnf install --nogpgcheck --nodocs --setopt=install_weak_deps=False --exclude ovirt-node-ng-image-update ovirt-release-host-node ovirt-node-ng-image-update-placeholder install ovirt-host-4.4.8-1 as dependency. # dnf install --nogpgcheck --nodocs --setopt=install_weak_deps=False --exclude ovirt-node-ng-image-update ovirt-release-host-node ovirt-node-ng-image-update-placeholder ovirt-host install ovirt-host-4.4.9-2 as dependency. So the repo is ok and it's not a mirror issue.
The issue of ovirt-host not being installed at latest version is due to: Problem: problem with installed package rsyslog-8.2102.0-6.el8.x86_64 - cannot install both rsyslog-8.2102.0-5.el8.x86_64 and rsyslog-8.2102.0-6.el8.x86_64 - cannot install both rsyslog-8.2102.0-6.el8.x86_64 and rsyslog-8.2102.0-5.el8.x86_64 - package rsyslog-openssl-8.2102.0-5.el8.x86_64 requires rsyslog = 8.2102.0-5.el8, but none of the providers can be installed - package ovirt-host-dependencies-4.4.9-2.el8.x86_64 requires rsyslog-openssl, but none of the providers can be installed - package ovirt-host-4.4.9-2.el8.x86_64 requires ovirt-host-dependencies = 4.4.9-2.el8, but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install the best update candidate for package ovirt-host-4.4.8-1.el8.x86_64 - package rsyslog-8.2102.0-5.el8.x86_64 is filtered out by exclude filtering - package rsyslog-openssl-8.2102.0-5.el8.x86_64 is filtered out by exclude filtering which is a regression in rsyslog package shipped in CentOS Stream
we can likely boot the node via UEFI in OST. We have a common template, but I do not see a problem booting all OST VMs like that.
A quick update: - the rsyslog issue has been solved, now ovirt-host-4.4.9 package is getting included in the build - the ovirt-release-host-node package was missing the uefi packages because the CentOS Build Service koji didn't trigger the is_x86 macro within the spec file. I'm rebuilding the package using COPR instead as it seems it works correctly there. I need to investigate on why the is_x86 macro didn't trigger properly but we may end up having to give up on the noarch for the package and make it architecture specific to solve the issue. I opened bug #2032850 to track this.