The Oracle Linux 8.5 image is not properly being pinned to a version and is always tracking the latest.

[ahmedzidan]

Hi trying to convert from centos 8.5 to oracle 8.5 but it always converts to the latest minor version, how can I fix that?

Command that I use

curl -L -o centos2ol.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oracle/centos2ol/main/centos2ol.sh
chmod +x centos2ol.sh
bash centos2ol.sh -r

Centos Image:

https://cloud.centos.org/centos/8/x86_64/images/CentOS-8-GenericCloud-8.4.2105-20210603.0.x86_64.qcow2

Some logs:

+ cat /etc/oracle-release /etc/os-release /etc/redhat-release /etc/system-release
Oracle Linux Server release 8.6
NAME="Oracle Linux Server"
VERSION="8.6"
ID="ol"
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VARIANT="Server"
VARIANT_ID="server"
VERSION_ID="8.6"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="Oracle Linux Server 8.6"

Please let me know how to stay with the same minor version?

[AndrejMoravcik]

Hi. I just came across this post now. If you look at CentOS FAQ you may find that stay on the same CentOS minor release version was generaly not recommended. Oracle Linux approach is different. It points to the "latest" repositories by default. OL8 latest is the same as OL8 update 8 (at the time of writing this comment) but will change automatically when update 9 will be available. I advise to use latest repositories, it is safe. You can also check API and ABI compatibilty within major release for your application. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Application Compatibility Guide https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel8-abi-compatibility