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OCI: Leapp Upgrade from OL7 to OL8 Leaves Multiple OL7 Packages Installed

edited Jul 24, 2023 8:01AM in Linux

Applies to: 

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Linux x86_64

Goal

Leapp Upgrade from OL7 to OL8 leaves many OL7 Packages installed 

Solution

Residual OL7 packages that remain on the system after upgrading to OL8 will not receive updates. Vulnerability scanners or other security audits might report warnings or failures about these packages.  

Please refer to post upgrade tasks section and remove the OL7 packages as explained here. 

References

https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/oracle-linux/8/leapp/leapp-CompletingPostupgradeTasks.html#post-upgrade

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