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Upgrade OL7->OL8 with LEAPP vs. EPEL

ManPauSep 21 2021

Wanted to upgrade my VM with OL7 to OL8.
the command
# leapp upgrade --oraclelinux
fails with error messages like this:
[...]
file /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1.1g from install of openssl-libs-1:1.1.1g-15.el8_3.x86_64 conflicts with file from package openssl11-libs-1:1.1.1g-3.el7.x86_64
file /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/six.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc from install of python3-six-1.11.0-8.el8.noarch conflicts with file from package python36-six-1.14.0-3.el7.noarch
[...]

the conflicting packages are all from EPEL.
Currently I use the "original" Fedora EPEL (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/#_quickstart , installed with# yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm)

Is it possible to switch from Fedora EPEL to Oracle EPEL (oracle-epel-release-el7)?
Would this then also solve my LEAPP Upgrade issue, means is LEAPP able to do the upgrade when I use Oracle EPEL instead of Fedora EPEL ?

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