All containers must be ready by 2025-04-15. We have agreed to release RC images on 2025-04-16. This epic should be completed by 2025-04-01, so we have some time to verify the release proccess, do internal testing, and address issues.

Goal:

Update all bootc and instructlab application containers

• to use only 9.4 EUS repositories
• to use RHELAI 1.5 RPMs from production
• to use official repo ids

Acceptance Criteria:

• all containers use RHEL AI 1.5 production repositories
• install new mandatory RPMs and remove RPMs that are no longer shipped in errata
• all containers have EUS repos for releasever 9.4 enabled
• all non-EUS repositories for BaseOS, AppStream, and CRB are disabled. The repos are mutually exclusive with EUS variants, see https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-eus
• for Red Hat-owned RPM repositories, the repo id must be in https://security.access.redhat.com/data/metrics/repository-to-cpe.json
• for third party / vendor repositories, the repo id must follow the naming convention from AIPCC-231. This applies to AMD GPU, AMD ROCm, Intel Gaudi/Habanalabs, and NVIDIA CUDA repo ids.
• third party RPMs must be installed from internal Pulp mirrors https://internal.console.redhat.com/api/pulp-content/rhel-ai/
• RPMDB and DNF does not list other repo ids than "System" or allowed repo ids
• final image does not contain Red_Hat_IT_Root_CA.crt CA certificate or references to internal hostnames and nightly composes
• images use same CUDA, Gaudi, and ROCm version + settings as the builder repo (https://gitlab.com/redhat/rhel-ai/wheels/builder/-/blob/main/build-args)
• InstructLab images use latest wheel release. The wheel releases are updated to the Renovate and the platform engineering bot. If you see a "update all dependencies (main)" MR, then cherry-pick or copy the changes into your branch.
   

  # dnf repolist --enabled
  repo id                                      repo name
  codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-eus-rpms Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for RHEL 9 x86_64 - Extended Update Support (RPMs)
  rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms         Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - AppStream - Extended Update Support (RPMs)
  rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-eus-rpms            Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - BaseOS - Extended Update Support (RPMs)
  rhelai-1.5-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms            Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (1.5) for RHEL 9 x86_64 (RPMs)
  ...

   

# dnf list --installed | sed -n 's/.*@\(.*\)/\1/p' | sort -u
System                                      
codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-eus-rpms
rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms        
rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-eus-rpms           
rhelai-1.5-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms
...

# grep stage /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
(no matches)
# grep corp.redhat.com /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
(no matches)
# grep nightly /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
(no matches)

# dnf config-manager --dump-variables | grep releasever
releasever = 9.4

Open questions:

• AIPCC-231 does not define repo ids for vendor repositories, yet.

RPMs
Remove packages:

• cxxopts (devel only)
• utf8cpp (devel only)
• gflags (not needed)
• llvm14-libs (llvmlite 0.44 is now statically linked with llvm15-libs)
• opencv (no longer built and needed)
• xsimd (devel only)

New packages:

• hdf5 (was a dependency of OpenCV, now needed for h5py)