Upgrading Oracle RDMA Packages on Oracle Linux

You can upgrade the Oracle RDMA packages on Oracle Linux by using the dnf update command.

If you're upgrading a system that has the oracle-rdma-release or oracle-rdma-release-guest package installed, if the package version is lower than version 0.18.1-1 and you intend to upgrade to version 0.18.1-1, or later, you must first manually remove the rdma-core-devel package. Remove this package by using the rpm -e --nodeps command, which removes the package outside of the standard yum or DNF package manager control and leaves any dependencies intact, for example:

sudo /bin/rpm -e --nodeps rdma-core-devel
sudo dnf update

If the system you have upgraded has the oracle-rdma-release or oracle-rdma-release-guest package installed and if the package version is version 0.31.0-1, then you can remove it because that package no longer serves any purpose:

sudo dnf remove oracle-rdma-release*