End of Maintenance Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 - June 2024
General Information
Red Hat 7 reaches it's End Of Maintenance (EOM) status very soon (30th June 2024). After this date only yum package updates are guranteed by subscribing to Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) repositories. Only OTC Red Hat 7 public image customers (BYOL excluded) are allowed and can update their repository configuration as follows.
Servers created from 14th of May 2024 onwards are already configured with ELS repositories. Therfore no further action is required.
Pre-condition
Please check beforehand whether the following repository is still configured and enabled!
Login to server + switch to root user and check configured repository.
$ sudo -i
$ yum repolist all
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repo id repo name status
OTC-rhel7-rhui-rpm OTC-rhel7-rhui-rpm enabled: 1
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#Configure ELS repositories
- Switch to root user
$ sudo -i - Clear yum cache
$ yum clean all - Create fresh yum cache
$ yum repolist all - Check that new version 2.1-0.1 is available
$ yum info rhui-rhel7-repos - Do an update of package rhui-rhel7-repos from version 2.0-0.1 to 2.1-0.1
$ yum update rhui-rhel7-repos - Check new configured ELS repositories
$ yum repolist all
Returned Output
| repo id | repo name | status |
|---|---|---|
| OTC-rhel7-rhui-rpm | OTC-rhel7-rhui-rpm | enabled: 2 |
| rhui-rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-debug-rpms/7Server/x86_64 | dotNET on RHEL Debug RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server from RHUI | enabled: 193 |
| rhui-rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-rpms/7Server/x86_64 | dotNET on RHEL RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server from RHUI | enabled: 1,405 |
| rhui-rhel-7-server-els-optional-rhui-rpms/x86_64 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support - Optional from RHUI (RPMs) | enabled: 24,215 |
| rhui-rhel-7-server-els-rhui-rpms/x86_64 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (RPMs) from RHUI | enabled: 34,394 |
| rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-3-rpms/x86_64 | Red Hat Update Infrastructure 3 for RHEL 7 (RPMs) | enabled: 191 |
| rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-extras-rpms/x86_64 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Extras from RHUI (RPMs) | enabled: 1,476 |
| rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-optional-rpms/7Server/x86_64 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Optional from RHUI (RPMs) | enabled: 24,215 |
| rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rh-common-rpms/7Server/x86_64 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - RH Common from RHUI (RPMs) | enabled: 243 |
| rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms/7Server/x86_64 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server from RHUI (RPMs) | enabled: 34,394 |
| rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-supplementary-rpms/7Server/x86_64 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Supplementary from RHUI (RPMs) | enabled: 511 |
| rhui-rhel-rs-for-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms/7Server/x86_64 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL 7 Server) (RPMs) from RHUI | enabled: 1,029 |
| rhui-rhel-server-rhui-rhscl-7-debug-rpms/7Server/x86_64 | Red Hat Software Collections Debug RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server from RHUI | enabled: 1,194 |
| rhui-rhel-server-rhui-rhscl-7-rpms/7Server/x86_64 | Red Hat Software Collections RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server from RHUI | enabled: 14,703 |
- Now the server has been successfully added to Extended Lifecycle Support repositories.
Please get in contact with our OTC support, if you encounter any issues during configuration steps.