On 7/19/20 9:21 PM, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
I would like to ask what is the best practice for upgrading (updating all packages, ie. "dnf upgrade") in my Fedora 32 Workstation. The Gnome Software graphical application provides a way for me to do this, but it can also be achieved in the command line. Do these two methods achieve exactly the same results? I would also like to plainly ask if in any occasion it is necessary or advisable to perform a system reboot after doing an "dnf upgrade". I have noticed that when the upgrade is performed with Gnome Software, a reboot is always performed after the upgrade.
If you reboot after the dnf upgrade then the results are the same. Until then you will still be using old versions of libraries and old version of applications until you restart them. You can only use a new kernel by rebooting. Some applications like Firefox can get unhappy if you upgrade while they're running and can crash or have strange behaviour.
When you use Gnome Software to do the upgrade, the reboot is not after the upgrade, the reboot is required to *do* the upgrade. Only the downloading of packages is done, then when you reboot, it will do the upgrade, then reboot again into the updated system.
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