OCI: What are the Minimum Required Software Sources for Various Oracle Linux flavours.

Applies To:

Oracle Linux Cloud Service - Version Oracle Linux 7.0 and later

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Goal

This document provides the minimum required software sources details to patch various Oracle Linux(OL) instances in the OCI.

Solution

The following are the minimum software sources/repositories required to patch the core packages of the Oracle Linux instances.

Oracle Linux 7:

ol7_UEKR6/ol7_UEKR5             Latest Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 6/5 for Oracle Linux 7Server 
ol7_latest                      Oracle Linux 7Server Latest 
ol7_oci_included                Oracle Linux 7 OCI Packages

Oracle Linux 8:

ol8_UEKR7/ol8_UEKR6           Latest Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 7/6 for Oracle Linux 8 
ol8_appstream                 Oracle Linux 8 Application Stream 
ol8_baseos_latest             Oracle Linux 8 BaseOS Latest 
ol8_oci_included              Oracle Linux 8 OCI Included Packages