[Libguestfs] [PATCH] convert_linux: translate the first CD-ROM's references in boot conf files

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 09:35:31AM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 12/15/21 16:51, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> > The bottom line is still that it's librpm's problem now to handle any
> > guest rpmdb, no matter how ancient (well, at least RHEL >= 5).  If you
> > have the latest rpm installed and it still doesn't work then it could
> > be a bug in librpm, although I'm pretty sure I tested this case.
> 
> The latest "rpm" package in Fedora 34, rpm-4.16.1.3-1.fc34:
> 
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1726304
> 
> built on 22 Mar 2021, does not (cannot) have the fix. The upstream rpm
> fix is:
> 
> https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/ea2754b4f14e0a195f4633adfcaa59d0167ee676
> 
> which is between tags "rpm-4.17.0-alpha" and "rpm-4.17.0-beta1", and has
> commit date 2021-06-11. The fix has been backported to RHEL-9 (1965147):
> 
> https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/buildinfo?buildID=1824746
> 
> but not to Fedora 34.
> 
> Fedora 34 is supposed to be maintained until 2022-05-17, according to
> Wikipedia, so this is definitely a Fedora bug. I guess I should update
> my workstation to Fedora 35 regardless; that should be faster.
> 
> (Fedora 35 has rpm-4.17.0-1.fc35, so it should have the fix.)

You might find you can just install the Fedora 35 package on F34, eg:

  dnf update rpm --releasever=35

Small possibility it could do Bad Stuff to your system -- since it is
a rather fundamental package ...

Rich.

> Thanks
> Laszlo

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