Hello,
When executing yum update under OL 7, it displays a message instructing to run /usr/bin/ol_yum_configure.sh. Reading https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E52668_01/F14052/html/notice_description.html, I understand that https://yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol7.repo is deprecated in favor of the new modularized approach.
After running yum update and running the mentioned script, I see the following in /etc/yum.repos.d:
[root@vm702 yum.repos.d]# ls -l
total 48
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 243 Jan 25 23:31 oracle-epel-ol7.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3354 Mar 1 20:11 oracle-linux-ol7.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13093 Mar 1 10:30 public-yum-ol7.repo.rpmsave
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13093 Mar 2 00:23 public-yum-ol7.repo.sav
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2116 Mar 1 20:11 uek-ol7.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 226 Feb 15 12:55 virt-ol7.repo
I was going to enable the ol7_developer repository to install the kmod video drivers for Virtualbox and UEK4, but the repository is not available. I still see it in the now obsolete configuration files though:
[root@vm702 yum.repos.d]# grep -w ol7_developer *
public-yum-ol7.repo.rpmsave:[ol7_developer]
public-yum-ol7.repo.sav:[ol7_developer]
I know my way around the problem, but I wonder what the official solution might be?
Should I edit oracle-linux-ol7.repo and add the ol7_developer repository? hat seems cumbersome and I would prefer to use yum-config-manager --enable ol7_developer. However, this isn't possible since the repository that contains it has been put out of service. There are other repository channels that are affected too.
Thanks!