You have not asked me, but I have another thing to add - maybe related. Am 13.12.20 um 09:54 schrieb Simon Matter: >> Le 13/12/2020 à 05:30, Frank Cox a écrit : >>> So after reading other folks' opinions of an Oracle Linux 8 (thanks >>> again, >>> Nicolas!) trial installation, I decided to crank up a Virtual Box >>> session >>> and try an install myself. >> >> I've made a few corrections to the article. If there's enough demand, I >> could >> translate it into english: >> >> https://blog.microlinux.fr/migration-centos-oracle-linux/ >> >> Thanks for the heads-up for EPEL. I'll look into that. >> > > Hi Nicolas, > > I've already mentoned the EPEL issue in one of my post together with > another thing I saw: > > 'dnf check-upgrade' shows some .src packages in the list of updatable > packages. > > Did you also see this? When mirroring their bunch of OL[6-8] and OVM34 this works really good with reposync. But it pulls in all their src rpms. The solution is to specify all needed "ARCHes" like: $ reposync -a i386 -a i686 -a x86_64 -a noarch