YUM stuck in beta

Grafana Installation
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Rocky 9

grafana.repo:

[grafana]
name=grafana
baseurl=https://rpm.grafana.com
repo_gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://rpm.grafana.com/gpg.key
sslverify=1
sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
exclude=*beta*

$ dnf list grafana
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:16 ago on Tue 22 Nov 2022 06:27:39 PM MST.
Available Packages
grafana.aarch64                                          9.3.0~beta1-1                                           grafana
grafana.armhfp                                           9.3.0~beta1-1                                           grafana
grafana.x86_64                                           9.3.0~beta1-1                                           grafana

How do you get the NOT beta version?

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I have similar situation on OracleLinux 8.6

edit
Resolved by yum install grafana-9.2.6-1
If you want to update whole OS before, use yum update --exclude=grafana

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Hi @sivan,

It is also written in the official documentation as how to exclude beta.

Let us know if this helps.

5

Nice. But this means you can’t update automatically, contrary to the installation docs.

6

See the repo file in the question. The exclude parameter is used as instructed. The issue remains. Unable to update automatically, contrary to the docs.

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Thanks for the reply. Let me investigate it and will get back with an update

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Hello all,

So, I was also able to reproduce it on my CentOS 9 Stream

I have reported this as a bug to the release team so that they can investigate it further:

I also found a WORKAROUND for it :slight_smile: :

Run this command:

[root@localhost ~]# dnf whatprovides grafana
and it will provide a list of packages provided in the grafana repo (already sorted by version)

Select the recent one showing just above the beta version i.e.

grafana-9.2.6-1.x86_64 : Grafana
Repo        : grafana
Matched from:
Provide    : grafana = 9.2.6-1

And install it this way:

[root@localhost ~]# dnf install grafana-9.2.6-1.x86_64
Last metadata expiration check: 0:17:57 ago on Thu 24 Nov 2022 11:48:37 AM CET.
Dependencies resolved.
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                                               Architecture                            Version                                            Repository                                  Size
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 grafana                                                               x86_64                                  9.2.6-1                                            grafana                                     92 M

This way the user can install the latest stable release.

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For this workaround, I think you’ll also want to disable the Grafana repo so that you don’t get pushed to beta when you run dnf update for normal CentOS updates.

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Looks like that also fails the GPG check:

$ sudo dnf install grafana-9.2.6-1.x86_64
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:44 ago on Thu 24 Nov 2022 10:51:28 AM MST.
Dependencies resolved.
========================================================================================================================
 Package                      Architecture              Version                        Repository                  Size
========================================================================================================================
Installing:
 grafana                      x86_64                    9.2.6-1                        grafana                     92 M
Installing dependencies:
 chkconfig                    x86_64                    1.20-2.el9                     baseos                     162 k

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================================================
Install  2 Packages

Total size: 92 M
Installed size: 309 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
[SKIPPED] grafana-9.2.6-1.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] chkconfig-1.20-2.el9.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
grafana                                                                                 9.4 kB/s | 1.7 kB     00:00
Importing GPG key 0x24098CB6:
 Userid     : "Grafana <info@grafana.com>"
 Fingerprint: 4E40 DDF6 D76E 284A 4A67 80E4 8C8C 34C5 2409 8CB6
 From       : https://rpm.grafana.com/gpg.key
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key import failed (code 2). Failing package is: grafana-9.2.6-1.x86_64
 GPG Keys are configured as: https://rpm.grafana.com/gpg.key
The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction.
You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.
Error: GPG check FAILED
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Thanks a lot, @sivan for reporting this one too :+1:

Seems like there is an update to the original GitHub bug as I do not see the beta packages anymore but that may had to break the GPG keys I also tested it out and got the same problem as you have shown.

WORKAROUND

Step1

sett gpgcheck=0 in the .repo file (/etc/yum.repos.d/grafana.repo)

Step 2

then clean the package manager cache

dnf clean all and dnf clean metadata

Step 3

Build new cache

dnf makecache

Step 4

dnf install grafana
Install the grafana and this time it will not give the GPG key error

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