Either you have directly enabled some of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 'optional' yum repositories on your system, or you have installed some packages which have been moved from "base" to "optional" repository in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. This will very likely cause fail during upgrade of your system. Please, provide additional yum repository to redhat-upgrade-tool to make packages residing in RHEL 7 optional channel updated. For this purpose, use following additional option for redhat-upgrade-tool: --addrepo rhel-7-optional= Optionally, you could remove all packages which reside in RHEL 7 optional repository before you start the system upgrade.