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leapp upgrade or leapp preupgrade failed with shim package conflict

What is the impact of this issue to you?

Important, customer leapp upgrading RHEL8 to RHEL9  (Satellite 6.15 to 6.16) failed with shim package conflict

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

shim-ia32-15.8-4.el8_9.x86_64
shim-x64-15.8-4.el9_3.x86_64

How reproducible is this bug?:  Always

Steps to reproduce

• Run leapp (preupgrade or upgrade) on a RHEL8 which has shim packages installed:
• # rpm -qa|grep shim

shim-ia32-15.8-4.el8_9.x86_64                             
shim-x64-15.8-4.el8_9.x86_64

•   Run "leapp preupgrade --target 9.3"

Expected results

Leapp preupgrade should complete without shim package conflict issue

Actual results

Failed with error:

2024-11-07 12:56:36.119 DEBUG PID: 109803 leapp.workflow.Download.dnf_package_download: Error: Transaction test error:
2024-11-07 12:56:36.121 DEBUG PID: 109803 leapp.workflow.Download.dnf_package_download: file /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/shim.efi from install of shim-x64-15.8-4.el9_3.x86_64 conflicts with file from package shim-ia32-15.8-4.el8_9.x86_64

Other Informations:

In RHEL8, file /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/shim.efi is provided by shim-ia32-15.8-4.el8_9.x86_64

1. rpm -ql shim-ia32
   /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTIA32.EFI
   /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/fbia32.efi
   /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/BOOTIA32.CSV
   /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/mmia32.efi
   /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/shim.efi <==============
   /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/shimia32-redhat.efi
   /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/shimia32.efi
   In RHEL9, file /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/shim.efi is provided by shim-x64-15.8-4.el9_3.x86_64
   [root@sat616 ~]# rpm -ql shim-x64
   /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
   /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/fbx64.efi
   /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/BOOTX64.CSV
   /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/mmx64.efi
   /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/shim.efi <=============
   /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/shimx64-redhat.efi
   /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/shimx64.efi
   Leapp upgrade should remove RHEL8 packages that is no longer released in RHEL9.

WORKAROUND:

Add shim-ia32 to
/etc/leapp/transaction/to_remove
Or, remove shim-ia32 before running leapp