On 12/12/18 10:48 AM, home user via users wrote:
> (Ed asked)
>> Has this system been installed at around F18
>> and then upgraded as time goes on?
> It occurs to me that I did not fully answer this. Since dnf was
> released into Fedora, I upgraded Fedora roughly every half year using
> "dnf upgrade [etc]". Before that, I upgraded roughly every half year
> using the "yum" equivalent.
One should really update (or "dnf upgrade") more often than every
six months. You run the risk of running security-compromised or
buggy software if you don't. I never do an automated update, I do
an interactive update so I can see just what the system wants to do
first ("sudo dnf upgrade" and do NOT specify the "-y" option).
As to whether you should upgrade from F28 to F29 or whatever when the
new Fedora comes out via "dnf system-upgrade", I generally wait a month
or two before I do it to see if there are any really nasty teething
problems others experience. If I'm confident, I do a full-tilt backup
of my system and do the upgrade. All my machines are F29 now.
I hate dnf using "upgrade" for both updates and upgrading. To me,
they're two different things. "Update" (to me) means updating installed
software to the latest releases. "Upgrade" (to me) means upgrading the
entire OS from, say F28 to F29. Yes, they use "dnf upgrade" for updates
and "dnf system-upgrade" for OS upgrades, but using the term "upgrade"
for both is (IMHO) confusing.
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