Description of problem:

We have a customer converting from CentOS 8.5 to RHEL 8.5. The conversion fails with a backtrace:
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(ERROR) PACKAGE_UPDATES.UNEXPECTED_ERROR: Unhandled exception was caught: in method 'ConfigParser_setSubstitutions', argument 2 of type 'std::map< std::string,std::string,std::less< std::string >,std::allocator< std::pair< std::string
const,std::string > > > const &'
Please file a bug at https://issues.redhat.com/ to have this fixed or a specific error message added.
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-
packages/convert2rhel/actions/_init_.py", line 393, in run
action.run()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/convert2rhel/actions/system_checks/package_updates.py", line 51, in run
packages_to_update =
get_total_packages_to_update(reposdir=reposdir)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/convert2rhel/utils.py", line 245, in wrapper
raise process.exception
TypeError: in method 'ConfigParser_setSubstitutions', argument 2 of type
'std::map< std::string,std::string,std::less< std::string >,std::allocator< std::pair< std::string const,std::string > > > const &'
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The reason for that was "system-release" provided by `centos-linux-release` package was not installed on the system.
We could see this in `rpm -Va` output:
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Unsatisfied dependencies for setup-2.12.2-6.el8.noarch:
system-release is needed by (installed) setup-2.12.2-6.el8.noarch
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Installing the package fixed the issue, still I would recommend we harden convert2rhel code a bit more to handle such issues, e.g. report a message such as "Check rpm -Va output for any issues".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

convert2rhel-1.3.1-1.el8.noarch

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Forcibly remove "centos-linux-release" using "rpm -e centos-linux-release --nodeps" command
2. Execute convert2rhel

Actual results:

Backtrace above

Expected results:

Some better message