On Sat Apr22'23 03:59:36PM, Community Support for Fedora Users wrote: > From: ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:59:36 -0700 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@xxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Fedora 38 Upgrade From Fedora 36 > > On 4/22/23 15:31, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 4/22/23 10:31, Barry wrote: > > > > On 22 Apr 2023, at 18:11, David Dembrow <ddembrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > Is it safe to upgrade to fedora 38 from fedora 36? Or in other > > > > words can a release cycle get skipped? > > > > > > It is not recommended. Safest to go via 37. > > > > That is not correct. See the link that Jeffrey posted. > > > > "System upgrade is only officially supported and tested over 2 releases > > at most (e.g. from 36 to 38)." > > > > I have upgraded 2 releases at a time many times with no issues. > > I have got away with it too. Went two at > a time from 33 to 37 last year at > a customer site. > Actually, I went F34 -> F38 last night, without any issue. Just added a --nogpgcheck. So, I have this circa 2009 Dell Precision T7710 and the HDD died. I put in an old SSD and brought it back. However, for some reason, it does not boot off of a live CD that is newer. I had one F34 lying around, and got it booted off that. Then I did sudo dnf update --releasever 38 and it went through the download and then failed at the key check. So, I tried by removing the check and it went through. sudo dnf update --releasever 38 --nogpgcheck After installation, it asked to verify the key for F38, and that was permitted, and it appears to be like another machine that has been able to follow a more disciplined regimen. I tried this on a whim some time ago with another old machine (F34 -> F37 in that case), and it worked then too. I guess this is not recommended, but it worked for me. Thanks, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
