BigFix Patch is pleased to announce support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on IBM PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian (LE) architecture.
The new site called ‘Patches for RHEL ppc64le 8’ uses DNF package manager and contains content from the following channels:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for Power, little endian - BaseOS (RPMs)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for Power, little endian - AppStream (RPMs)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for Power, little endian - Supplementary (RPMs)
Actions to Take:
RHEL 8 PPC64LE requires BigFix Client version 9.5 Patch 14 (9.5.14.73).
Subscribe to the ‘Patches for RHEL ppc64le 8’ site from the License Overview Dashboard. If the site is not showing in the License Overview dashboard, update your license from the dashboard by clicking ‘Check for license update’, then run the BigFix Administration Tool.
You will also need to upgrade the RHSM download plug-in to version 1.0.5.0. Upgrade the RHSM download plug-in from the Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard, available from the ‘Patching Support’ site.
Users of the RHSM download cacher will need to update to version 1.0.5.0:
Windows - http://software.bigfix.com/download/bes/util/RHSMDownloadCacher.exe
Linux - http://software.bigfix.com/download/bes/util/RHSMDownloadCacher-linux.tar.gz
Published Sites:
Patches for RHEL ppc64le 8, site version 1
Patching Support, site version 972
Application Engineering Team
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