Rocky Tools

Various scripts and tools that we find useful, whether we use them or they are made for public consumption. For example, conversion scripts or otherwise.

[migrate2rocky] -- Conversion Script

Running this script will convert an existing CentOS 8 system to Rocky Linux 8.

Usage

./migrate2rocky.sh -h
├── -h   # --> Display this help
├── -r   # --> Convert to Rocky
└── -V   # --> Verify switch

[!! USE WITH CAUTION !!]

Known Issues

Katello clashes

Katello installs it's own repositories via subscription-manager that are meant to replace the ones from CentOS, but it does not remove, or even disable, the corresponding CentOS repositories. This would cause issues to a normal running system, but it is especially problematic for migrate2rocky as it means that migrate2rocky cannot properly determine which repositories to remove and attempting to run migrate2rocky on a katello will likely result in a corrupted system.

RHEL migrations show error messages during conversion

  Installing       : rocky-release-8.3-13.el8.noarch                        2/5Error unpacking rpm package rocky-release-8.3-13.el8.noarch
...
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/redhat-release: cpio: File from package already exists as a directory in system
error: rocky-release-8.3-13.el8.noarch: install failed
...
Error: Transaction failed

This results from conflicts in the directory structure of RHEL with that of RockyLinux. migrate2rocky will detect the issue and go on to remove the conflicting directory and install rocky-release with the rpm command.

Grub still shows kernel entries from previous installation

This is normal. The running kernel cannot be safely removed when migrate2rocky is run. The RockyLinux kernel should come up as the default highlighed kernel on reboot but the other ones will remain until they are removed or replaced by newer kernels. If you want you can manually remove the old kernels after reboot with dnf or rpm.

Latest Version

The latest version of this script can be found here.

Debugging

The migrate2rocky script pipes everything shown on stdout and stderr to /var/log/migrate2rocky.log.

If you run in to issues executing this script, please submit an issue here.

Make sure to include the output log, and remove any sensitive information. (if any)

Feel free to create a pull request if you think you've got the fix.