Hello,
I have found that the official tool used by RedHat for this will be called “ELevate”.
The developers of Alma has build the needed data packages for Rocky 8.
So my path will be CentOS 7.9 → Rocky 8 → Rocky 9.
The manual are here:
I have try it, but it fails with many errors about Python 2 and utf-8 strings.
leapp preupgrade
will fails with:
====> * vendor_signed_rpm_scanner
Provide data about installed RPM Packages signed by Red Hat.
Process Process-250:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py”, line 258, in _bootstrap
self.run()
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py”, line 114, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/leapp/repository/actor_definition.py”, line 72, in _do_run
actor_instance.run(*args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/leapp/actors/init.py”, line 290, in run
self.process(*args)
File “/usr/share/leapp-repository/repositories/system_upgrade/common/actors/redhatsignedrpmscanner/actor.py”, line 125, in process
“Package {} is unsigned, packager: {}, signature: {}”.format(pkg.name, pkg.packager, pkg.pgpsig)
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xfc’ in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)
Have any one any experience with it?