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DOCA OFED Upgrade Advisory — Rocky Linux 9.7 — December 2025

Summary

Customers running Rocky Linux Accelerator Optimized images built on 20251113 or earlier must run dnf update doca-repo before running dnf update to avoid a package dependency conflict.

Affected Configurations

  • Operating System: Systems running Rocky Linux 9.6 or older that are upgrading to Rocky Linux 9.7
  • Package: DOCA OFED (all versions currently distributed via SIG/Cloud-Next)
  • Architecture: x86_64, aarch64

Issue Description

A userspace package version conflict exists between DOCA OFED versions prior to 3.20 and Rocky Linux 9.7. Specifically, the ucx and perftest packages included in Rocky Linux 9.7 are at a higher version than the corresponding packages in the DOCA OFED repository. This version mismatch causes dnf update to fail with dependency resolution errors.

Workaround

Prior to performing a full system upgrade, update the DOCA repository package:

sudo dnf update doca-repo
sudo dnf update

This ensures the DOCA OFED repository configuration is updated to properly handle the ucx and perftest package version conflict before proceeding with the full system upgrade.

Resolution Status

Rocky Linux Accelerator Optimized images built after 20251113 already include the updated doca-repo package, so this upgrade issue is not present on those builds or later.